The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
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The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and un...
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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.
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Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.
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'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
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Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,—that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses...
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One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
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Serious Sincere Systematic Service Surely Secures Supreme Success.
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