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Where is human nature so weak as in…

15 Feb , 2011  

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Ward Beecher , US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 – 1887)

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Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy

Whoever desires to found a state an…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy , Italian dramatist, historian, & […]

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Alfred Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and…

9 Sep , 2010  

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Great short quote and quotation by: Alfred Tennyson ,

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You cannot slander human nature; it…

27 Apr , 2010  

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon , English preacher (1834 – 1892)

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Eric Hoffer

You dehumanize a man as much by ret…

27 Apr , 2010  

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature – by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals – as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated […]

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Lynn White, Jr

[W]e shall continue to have a worse…

11 Jan , 2010  

[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. Great short quote and quotation by: Lynn White, Jr., “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”, Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203-1207. ,

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