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«It is impossible for a Christian to pray for the salvation of a man's soul and, at the same moment, seek to kill him. This seems obvious. But that which seems so evident in any other context somehow becomes obscured in times or war.»
«May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.»
«I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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Prayer
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«Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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evident, fit to, maxim, proposition, resolved
«Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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«It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Skepticism
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evident, skepticism
«It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself',' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.»
«Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: / we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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American, American Dream, creed, deeply, difficulties, equal, evident, I Have a Dream, live out, nation, one day, rise, rise up, rooted, self evident, The American, truths
«I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself»
«It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.»
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