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• Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

  Cat Stevens

  Real, Having Hope, Rushdie

  "Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie" by Craig R. Whitney, p. C18, archive.nytimes.com. May 23, 1989.

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• If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Numbers, Government, Uprising

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• In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.

  Mark Waid

  Cute, Couple, Book

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• I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Religious, Character, Political

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• Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Atheism, Diseased

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.34, St. Martin's Press

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• God wants to lead you to places you cannot get to without Him, and He does that by the power of His Spirit. He can bring you into the realm of the miraculous-not as a show, but as a demonstration of His love and compassion for the lost, hurting, or needy. Who among us doesn’t want or need that?

  Stormie Omartian

  Hurt, Compassion, Doe

  FaceBook post by Stormie Omartian from Feb 12, 2015

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• As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Yield, Giving, Mind

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• The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Mind, Principles

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• Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sweet, Hands, Order

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• ...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Religion, Resurrection

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• I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

  Andy Stanley

  Compassion, People, Generosity

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers, doctors, lawyers, artists and entertainers. Some people are cool and some people are geeky. I look around at my friends and I think, only the gospel has the power to put together a friendship like this.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Artist, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions, both of men and things, that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul, and plant it so immovable within it, that Euclid's demonstrations, could they be brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it!

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Light, Air

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• According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).

  Lubos Motl

  Feminist, Peaceful, Majority

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Eye, Mean

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

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• But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always receive the praise which he deserves, that of being a merciful Father, and an impartial Judge. About the close of the psalm, he inveighs against those ungodly men who will not acknowledge God's hand, amid such palpable demonstrations of his providence.

  John Calvin

  Father, Men, Hands

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.1311, Ravenio Books

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• There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.

  Dennis Prager

  Islam, Cartoon, Insult

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 24, 2013

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• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  Christopher Wren

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100

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• Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies, I happened to click a few frames while a young man pushed his hamsa (spread hand) into my camera, which is seen by some as 'the evil eye.' As it happened, it was the tail end of my roll of film and the image is actually a double exposure. This taught me that in spite of your careful framing, chance occurrences create the most interesting images.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Eye, Men, Issues

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

  Hugh Masekela

  Struggle, Community, March

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• Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

  Pablo Alvarado

  Country, Yellow, Immigration

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• Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most of her program around fiercely difficult contemporary works. She has fingers that work like chrome-plated pistons, and her high-seated position let her bring pulverizing power to bear.

  Donal Henahan

  School, Play, Europe

  "Dazzling, No More" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 18, 1977.

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