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«In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed»

«In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue»

«I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would like to God that such a system prevailed all over the world»

«For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.»

«He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: / Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; / Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.»

«I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; / Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.»

«DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. --G.J.»

«During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly b»

«Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: / The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: / But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) / Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: / The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.»

«For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:) / The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.»