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Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Mus...

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If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was...

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It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survi...

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He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and eve...

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For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passion...

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He left to do whatever editors do.

Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. "Ple...

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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

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As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

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Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, tha...

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Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institutio...

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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

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There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

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Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it ...

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We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts ...

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Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clappi...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or u...

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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

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Noam ChomskyNecessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for the ...

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Philip RothThe Dying Animal

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Kings can only use their best tools.

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down ...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life