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“We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.”

Ifs Believe Persons Stills Matter Wish Secret Circumstances Concerned Regard Scandal Secrecy

Author:Leigh Hunt

“Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.”

People Stills States United Cities United States New York Areas Regard West Wave Genuine Shore New York City Eastern Frontiers Foreigners

Book:Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service

Source: Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service

“I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.”

People Needs Should Stills Eye Beautiful Sweet Rain Should Have Regard Scales Sunday Preaching Smooth Thunder Sermons Silk Velvet Pulpit Pitchforks

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.”

May Has Beens Said Stills Ideas Becoming Intellectual Essence Regard Defects Obsessive Grotesque Zealot Zealotry

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.”