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«A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true»
«It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
authorities, dangerous, established, matters, wrong
«Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Memory
| Keywords:
authorities, card, consulted, consults, disorder, disordered, disorders, indexes, indices, returned, the Index
«Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.»
«The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: / Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
authorities, baptism, baptisms, filth, hand of God, Jesus Christ, resurrection, Resurrection of Jesus, resurrection of Jesus Christ, right-handed, right hand, the like, The Resurrection, whereunto
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ancient, ancient people, ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, as a matter of fact, authorities, century, conception, consulting, existed, hardly, observation, obvious, seventeenth, seventeenth century
«In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
almost, at issue, authorities, beliefs, By belief, case, cased, convictions, examination, examined, examines, gotten, hand, have-not, his case, issue, issuing, politics, questions, religion, second, seconded, second hand, taken, take issue, themselves
«He who hears this name (God) from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away»
«The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
authorities, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, checking, classics, degrade, free expression, preventing, The Classics
«Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
authorities, common law, construction
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