Dues Quotes - Page 7

• A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.

  Ibn Rajab

  Ignorance, Greatness, Doe

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• If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

  Bertrand Russell

  Government, Church, Influence

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.216, Psychology Press

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• A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Justice, Desire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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• I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous
  nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the
  result of voters from the members of my own
  profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's
  work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as
  I was when I received mine.

  Bette Davis

  Pride, Proud, Oscars

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• Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Baby, Past, Doctors

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• This morning, due to a massive storm, at least 150,000 people in San Francisco were left without power. Of course, people in San Francisco without power are usually called Republicans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Morning, San Francisco, People

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• All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Progress, Unreasonable, Persons

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• Analysts recommendations may not produce good results. In part this is due to the pressure placed on these analysts to recommend frequently rather than wisely.

  Seth Klarman

  May, Pressure, Analysts

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• Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due
  to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Lying, Gay

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• To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Letters

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.419

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• The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

  Ronald Syme

  Vitality, Aristocracy, Empires

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• By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Cute, Stupid, Koalas

  "Last night's TV" by Nancy Banks-Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2006.

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• Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

  Justinian I

  Justice, Purpose, Politics

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• No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Justice, Evil

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Hard Times, Numbers

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• Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Lynching, Law

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• There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

  Pierre Bayle

  Men, Giving, Justice

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• The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Leader, Atheism, Degrees

  Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

  John Dewey

  Destiny, Atheism, Unseen

  John Dewey (1960). “A Common Faith”, p.7, Yale University Press

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• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Practice, Atheism, Influence

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• Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.

  Abraham H. Cannon

  Brother, Views, Snow

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• I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.

  Adam Sandler

  Children, Decision, Friendly

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• I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

  Matthew Henry

  Desire, Needs, May

  Matthew Henry, George Whitefield, Alexander MacLaren (2001). “Classic Sermon Outlines”, p.12, Hendrickson Publishers

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• The fans don't know how much I love them so. It really can get to a hurting feeling inside due to how strong I love them all.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Hurt, Feelings

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