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“To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.”

Facts Seems Born Study Doubt Civilization Careful Corners Available No Doubt

Author:James Henry Breasted

“The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.”

Men Made Desire Boys Study Plans He Man Independence Careful Invention Inequality Desirable Acquisition Pupils Adopting

Author:William Godwin

“The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.”

Book Real Shows America Wealth Study Influence Offers Achievement Evidence Democratic Careful Inequality Supposed To Be Association Antidote Scholarship Chorus Prodigious Real Knowledge

Author:Robert Kuttner

“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.”

People Mind Firsts Believe May Mean Sometimes Used Goal Results Study Revolution Program Method Careful Objectives Motive Characteristics Consideration Historic Changing Your Mind

Author:Malcolm X

“With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.”

“To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.”

Study Modern Honest Ancient Saint Careful Critical Scripture Latter Objections Search For Truth Latter Days Latter Day Saints

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're recycling. If all you're doing is recycling - if you've got three automobiles, and 10 children, and a 7,000-square-foot dot-com palace and second home up in the mountains that has to be heated - the recycling isn't making much difference.”

People Ifs Feels Children Helping Home Three Differences Cases Study Feet Involved Mountain Careful Squares Palaces Automobile Dots Recycling

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.”

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.”

Knows Long Problem Term Study Crisis Impact Series Depth Careful Thanks Long Term Unemployment Great Depression 1930s

Author:Bob Ehrlich

“These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.”

Feels Heart Facts Study Clear Careful Intellect

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“The infallibility and inerrancy of biblical teaching does not, however, guarantee the infallibility and inerrancy of any interpretation or interpreter of that teaching; nor does the recognition of its qualities as the Word of God in any way prejudge the issue as to what Scripture does, in fact, assert. This can be determined only by careful Bible study.”

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Book:Fundamentalism

Source: Fundamentalism

“It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.”

“I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.”

Law Culture Literature Given Party Leader Study Islam Careful

Book:Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal

Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal