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american-activist great life nation poisoned seen truly virtuous woman
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Lucretia Mott
american-activist control hope
Our only hope is to control the vote. Medgar Evers
american-activist cigarette mug sign sure
When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object. John Gates
american-activist changed god grabbed hold looked months saved three totally
When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since. Michael Scott
american-activist increase
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
american-activist gorilla
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.
american-activist holds learned slip
They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away. George Jackson
american-activist conditions continue forces grows production rigid system
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
american-activist behind capitalist conditions forces further holding productive society
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon