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• The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Believe, Animal, Catholic

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1955). “History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne”

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• A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

  Amy Goodman

  Taken, Typical, Earning

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.328, Haymarket Books

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• Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

  Robert Breault

  Destiny, Self, Color

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• Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.

  Richard Ballantine

  Views, Car, Historical

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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• There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reason Why, Should, Plans

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anne Elizabeth Forester Stanhope Chesterfield (Countess of), Selina Louisa Forester Bridgeman Bradford (countess of), Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Zetland (Marquis of) (1929). “1876 to 1881”

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• You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Party, Government

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, August 30, 1848.

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• Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Roots

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• I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually.

  Steve Albini

  Thinking, Band, Enabling

  "Amanda "$1.2m" palmer wants you to play with her for free". Comment to a post, www.electricalaudio.com. September 13, 2012.

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• We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

  Elif Safak

  Heart, Unique, Differences

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, 2011.

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• The very madness of the scheme protects it.

  Iris Murdoch

  Madness, Protect, Plans

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• Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Criticism, Dubious

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Men, Games

  Libra pt. 2 (1988)

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• Los Angeles was a place after my own heart. The people were hospitable. The country had the same attraction for me that it had for the Indians who originally chose this spot as their place to live. The Los Angeles River was a beautiful, limpid little stream, with willows on its banks. It was so attractive to me that it at once became something about which my whole scheme of life was woven, I loved it so much.

  William Mulholland

  Beautiful, Country, Heart

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• It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mistake, Ancient, Social

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• Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

  Martha Stout

  Emotional, Ties, Games

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Gay

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• Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Vigor, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.242

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• Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

  Samuel Johnson

  Visionaries, Amusement, Planning

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.226, Yale University Press

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• Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

  Ali MacGraw

  Fleeting, Modeling

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• I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Recovery, Play

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• In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.

  Mike Tyson

  Loss, People, Way

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• The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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• We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Philosophical, Sea, Ships

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• Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Acceptance, Thinking, Ontology

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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