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• Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Eagles, Growing

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• The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

  Walter Bagehot

  Essence, Littles, Way

  1856 Essay on Macaulay.

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.

  Hannah Arendt

  Nihilism, Sides, Currents

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Odds, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

  George W. Bush

  America, Long, Feel Good

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Irrelevance, Race, Color

  "Edwards v. California, 314 U.S. 160, 184". Judicial opinion, 1941.

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• Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Attitude, Soul, Information

  "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1997.

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• Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

  Mortimer Collins

  Religion, Church, Deities

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Men

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

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• The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Evil, Hatred

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.94, Verso

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• Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

  Countee Cullen

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Needs

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Done, Thumbs

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 1 : The Abandoned Road, 1940 - 1943.

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• The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

  Ellen G. White

  Confusion, Church, World

  Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 1. Patriarchs and Prophets—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what they imply on the part of the writers. The last tells me that I am a Pharisee, and should have helped to crucify our Lord. It is very odd that people should think, much more write, such things; but the passion of unbelief is a very serious thing while it lasts.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

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• Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

  Charles A. Beard

  Destiny, Mirrors, Evil

  "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.

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• So far as the government is concerned, there is ­only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. The unity and the integrity of the country are the topmost priorities. All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Integrity, Book

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 07, 2015.

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• When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Fate, Men

  Address at the Yale Alumni Dinner, The Oxford Club, Brooklyn, New York, www.theodore-roosevelt.com. March 03, 1899.

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• In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

  Michael Foot

  Mind, Empires, Opinion

  Morning Star, 1980.

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• If the distinction provided by Jesus' words: Give unto god, what is god's, and unto Caesar what is Caesar's! is carried through, then other necessary intrusions by the national state into the domain of church creeds can be completely avoided.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Jesus, Giving, Church

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 609, 1930.

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• Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Running, Long, Political

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.129, Anchor

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• When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Power, Democracy, Politics

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• Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Catholic, Religion

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• How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Religious, Loneliness

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

  Thomas Sowell

  Weather, Political, Meteorology

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Basic Economics”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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