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“Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.”

“If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Has Beens Sometimes Reason Taken Graves Chosen Interpretation Mistaken Kill Me Pretext Being Wrong Chosen One

Author:Michael Servetus

“Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.”

Ideas Sometimes Christian Causes Differences Religious Christianity Taken Theory Evidence Historical Islam Dues Locals Islamic Interpretation Scholar Sufi Resemblance Esoteric

Book:The Elephant in the Dark

Source: The Elephant in the Dark

“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Problem Form Used Taken Speech Connections Variety Thoughtful Logical Interpretation Intentionality

Book:Science and metaphysics: variations on Kantian themes

Source: Science and metaphysics: variations on Kantian themes