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245 Scholar Quotes

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In politics In religion Equally Making proselytes
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If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Must have An enemy Government Can oppose
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

National debt Not excessive National blessing
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Have thought My duty Exhibit things They ought
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Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Experience The oracle Truth Responses
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

God May forgive Your sins Nervous system
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Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Obvious origins Human disagreement Lies Use
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Psychiatric Scientific inquiry Made Our rulers
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To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Use words Sense reality Going A lamp
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols,we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us

Man's achievements Symbols Consider ourselves Semantic class
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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Two ways Slide easily Through life Believe everything
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Words don't mean, people mean.

Words Don't mean People
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A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

Person What He sees The world
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.

Same kind Moron The method The work
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Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.

Any proposition The word Create Linguistic structural
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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Make clear Words Things spoken Absolute isolation
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Different ‘philosophies’ represent nothing but methods of evaluation, which may lead to empirical mis-evaluation if science and empirical facts are disregarded.

Philosophies Represent nothing Methods Evaluation
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Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Avoiding offense Don't accept As equals
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I would rather clean than beg.

Would rather Clean Than beg
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

I confront Elite's self image Tolerant Noses women
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Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Muslim leaders Ask themselves Their relationship Political movement
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Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is wrong.

Majority Not terrorist Sympathetic With terrorism
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Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

Young people The faith Fired up By preachers
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A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

Western woman Father's property Own lifestyle
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The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

The idea People Just friendly Demonstrate
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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

Let individuals Own choices Respect that Own child
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I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

Are multitudes Seeking God Reject atheism
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I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

Christianity Enlightened enough Separate spirituality Life
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

War Delightful Who Experience
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Thinking What Hope Happen
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Point Happiness Man Willing
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give Light Darkness Disappear
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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

No one Respects Talent Concealed
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He Allows Oppression Crime
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Give Advice Called upon
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Time takes away the grief of men.

Time Away Grief Men
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Eagerness Wealth Exist Sin
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The desire to write grows with writing.

Desire Write Grows
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Man's Mind Falsehood Truth
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Your library is your paradise.
Your Library Paradise
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Fortune favors the audacious.

Fortune Favors Audacious
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Humility is truth.

Humility Truth
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The Sharia court is a local one and its judgements are elementary at best, unless left unchallenged. We may not change minds, but we can make the law work for us.

Sharia court Local one Its judgement Are elementary
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Death is an ascension to a better library.

Death Ascension Library
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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet

Wicked Worse Indiscreet
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Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night.

Love Growing Light Night
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No man is an island

Man Island
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All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

Things Destruction Love Decay
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Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind

Man's Death Diminishes Mankind
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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Doubt Strange Right Wrong
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