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• While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Law, Class, Age

  Peter Kropotkin (2002). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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• It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Half, Quarters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.

  Edward Everett

  Blessed, Men, Challenges

  EDWARD EVERETT (1870). “ORATIONS AND SPEECHES ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS”, p.324

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• When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

  Henry Ford

  Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.

  Robertson Davies

  Should Have, Police, Ignorant

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Effort, Hull House

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.70, Hayes Barton Press

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• I keep some portion of my early gleam;
  Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river,
  It lights my life, a far illusive dream,
  Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Dream, Moving, Light

  "Twoscore and Ten". "A Home Idyl And Other Poems". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1881.

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• In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.

  James G. Frazer

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.

  Roger Bacon

  Wise, Men, Length Of Life

  "Opus Tertium". Book by Roger Bacon, p. 91, 1267.

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• A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.

  Daniel Defoe

  Women, Accomplishment, Being Thankful

  Daniel Defoe (2017). “An Essay Upon Projects”, p.130, Litres

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• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

  Sigmund Freud

  Work, Mean, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Hollywood is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it - the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that - so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don't even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron

  Mean, Army, Gun

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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• ... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

  Catharine Beecher

  Demand, Reason, Woman Suffrage

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.206

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• Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.

  Perry Brass

  Mass Culture, Realizing, Banality

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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• If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.

  Carl Levin

  Love, Wall, Keys

  Carl Levin's opening statement before U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Wall Street Bank Involvement With Physical Commodities at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.hsgac.senate.gov. November 20, 2014.

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• In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead, and the universe is not an organism, but a building, with gods at rest in it in luxury: not as personifications of the energies in their manners of operation, but as luxury tenants, requiring service. And Man, accordingly, is not as a child born to flower in the knowledge of his own eternal portion but as a robot fashioned to serve.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Flower, Men

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• If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now because you'll quadruple - this, what's happening in Iran, is a disgrace, and it's going to lead to destruction in large portions of the world.

  Donald Trump

  Iran, World, Destruction

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Emergencies, Ships

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

  Michael Pitt

  Emotional, Able, Film

  "Interview with Michael Pitt, star of upcoming film, 'I Origins'". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. August 7, 2014.

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• The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'

  Margot Adler

  Drama, Communication, Sea

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• When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.

  Richard Simmons

  Workout, Stress, Add

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Doctrine, Facts, Form

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.6

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• The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.

  David Ricardo

  Corn, Lasts, Difficulty

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.490

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• We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.

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• It is good reason, that man consisting of two parts, the soul and body, the body only should not take up all, but the soul should be remembered too. Enjoying is the body's part, and well-doing is the soul's; your souls are suitors to you to remember them, that is, to remember well-doing, which is the soul's portion.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Men, Soul And Body, Two

  Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.33

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