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“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.”

Inspirational Giving Feels Humans Spirit Individual Human Beings Demand Sacred Superiors Limitation Fulfilled Human Spirit Individual Strength

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not try to inflict them upon others by force; he has the right to argue for them as eloquently as he can. But he has no right to be protected from the criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge.”

Men Trying Doe Certain Force Challenges Rights Demand Criticism Sacred Arguing Treated Protected Indulge Harbors Superstitious Inalienable Rights Imbecility

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.”

People States Sacrifice Changed Terrible Demand Sacred Russia Willingness Divides Things Have Changed

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!”

Ifs Giving Demand Sacred Deny Bread

Book:Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.”

Able Joy Process Church Demand Catholic Sacred Track Proof Candidates Attributes Chapters Verses Suggestions Catholic Church

Book:Birds, beasts, and relatives

Source: Birds, beasts, and relatives

“The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.”

Objects Demand Sacred Terrified Violation

Author:Georges Bataille

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.”

Thinking World Mind Problem Levels Century Perspective Honor Demand Sacred Forgotten Intuition Solve Rational Faithful Servant Analysis Intuitive Faithful Servants

Author:Albert Einstein

“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.”

Source: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

“Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.”

Facts Science Moral Principles Demand Sacred Philosopher Theologian Allegiance Moral Principles

Author:Louis Agassiz

“Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.”

World Doe America Opportunity Responsibility Planets Bears Offers Demand Ideals Sacred Our Planet Posterity Borrowed

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993

“We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.”

Inspirational Winning Nations Freedom Demand Eternal Eternity Sacred Gods Will Heritage We Will Win

Author:Martin Luther