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“What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?”

Book Form Science Powerful Study Mankind Instruction

Author:Francis Collins

“My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.”

Science Night Difficult Justice Powerful Cases Mankind Fairs Difficulty Dear Disappear Day And Night Dear Friend

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.”

Form Powerful Moral Mankind Pure Institutions Charity Cruelty Combination Most Powerful Benevolence Superstitious Rite Pernicious

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.”

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.”

People Ifs Knows Force Goal Powerful Mankind Movement Messages Labor Democratic Population Pursuit Sections Secured

Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”

World Doe Ends Earth Evil Church Powerful Struggle Fire Violence Mankind Poet Devil Hatred Wings Expected Vain Preacher Repent End Of The World Lament Evil World

Author:Johan Huizinga

“There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.”

Ifs States Earth Faces Science United Powerful Technology United States Mankind Movement Ignorance Revolution Depends Intellectual Thrive Activist Have Faith

Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.”

“The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.”

Wells Force Peace Natural Powerful Moral Mankind Materials Intellectual Unity Driving

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.”

Passion Powerful Common Known Mankind All Things Exciting Wine Mortals Fuel Most Powerful

Author:Francis Bacon

“The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the Nephilim - who corrupted, harassed, even killed mankind. Now, at the end of the 20th century, we have the return of "alien" entities with apparent supernatural powers.”

Humans Ends Results Powerful Race Half Mankind Century Return Angel Unions Aliens Fallen Wicked Entity 20th Century Very Powerful Offspring Hybrid Fallen Angels Supernatural Powers Nephilim

Author:Chuck Missler

“These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.”

Trying Bigs Reality Powerful Technology Mankind Extraordinary Accidents New Technology Virtual Reality

Author:Paul Virilio

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink”

May Prayer Powerful Mankind Tools Most Powerful

Author:Ted Dekker

“. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.”

Heart Wish Powerful Mankind Ignorance Truth Is Attraction Confused Most Powerful Distracted Willful Ignorance

Book:Rape: A Love Story

Source: Rape: A Love Story