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Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
But the accusation and witnesses are produced in the presence of the judge and Power; the accused person makes his defense, and he is immediately acquitted or condemned by the judge; and if he appeals to the triumvirate, on the following day he is acquitted or condemned.
The applications of science have built man a well-supplied house, and are teaching him to live healthily therein. They have enabled him to throw masses of people against another with cruel weapons. They may yet allow him truly to encompass the great record and to grow in the wisdom of race experience. He may perish in conflict before he learns to wield that record for his true good. Yet, in the application of science to the needs and desires of man, it would seem to be a singularly unfortunate stage at which to terminate the process, or to lose hope as to the outcome.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Poverty cannot debase sturdy souls, nor riches lift up mean ones.
Duty performed is a moral tonic; if neglected, the tone and strength of both mind and heart are weakened, and the spiritual health undermined.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Trofim Lysenko, fully Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.
Life is dear to all beings. They have the right to live the same as we do.
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Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, an inspiring achievement, yes, we will all go together when we go.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
I think [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie. I think that, looking back, I now certainly feel I understand more what the war was about... We needed to go over there basically, and take out a very big stick, right in the heart of that world, and burst that bubble… And what they needed to see was American boys and girls going from house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, and basically saying: which part of this sentence do you understand?
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The rich man goes out yachting, where sanctity can't pursue him; the poor goes afloat in a fourpenny boat, where the bishop groans to view him.