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• Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Believe, Careers, Directors

  "FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

  John Calvin

  Song, Moving, Heart

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• Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

  Edwin Markham

  Clever, Men, Poetic

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• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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• The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's  presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Voice, People

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• Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

  Henry Makow

  Powerful, Mean, Men

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• Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.

  Michael Scheuer

  Religious, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Confused, Passion, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Confessions”, p.176, Everyman's Library

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• I am the one rich thing that morn
  Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
  Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
  But bend and take my being in.

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Winning, Rose, Noon

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1882). “Poems”

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• Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.

  Jonathan Clements

  Loyalty, Easter, Thinking

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• Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Men

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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• There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Depressing, Knowledge

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.137, Penguin

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Mother, Uncles

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

  Joe Conason

  Soldier, Way, Politician

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• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice.

  Sally Mann

  Passion, Heart, Eye

  Sally Mann (2015). “Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Friendship, Old Friends, Lovers

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• Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

  James Madison

  Country, Alcohol, Age

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.384

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• It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

  David Hume

  World, Littles, Ruins

  A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)

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• Ardent
  yet chill and formal,
  how I ache
  to tempt a chisel
  as a sculptor.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Chill, Ache

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Doors, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm an ardent fan. All I really had to do was put myself in my own shoes.

  Nina Jacobson

  Shoes, Fans, My Own

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

  Otto Weininger

  Stars, Lying, Stupid

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.138, Рипол Классик

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• It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Dirty, Men, Hands

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• Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loss, Giving, Culture

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.34, 谷月社

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