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• In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

  John Lennox

  Results, Buried, Existence

  John C. Lennox (2009). “God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”, p.210, Lion Books

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• It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

  Shashi Deshpande

  Birth, Life Is, Process

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Intelligent, Hands, Political

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• I dare not so honor my mere wishes and prayers as to put them for a moment beside your noble acts; but this know, I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured on the pretence of sparing me a twinge or two.

  Robert Browning

  Dog, Pain, Cat

  "The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Agamemnon of Æschylus, La Saisiaz, etc".

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• The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

  Roger Scruton

  Order, Voice, Achievement

  "A Political Philosophy". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

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• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

  Robert Herrick

  Ties, Yoke, Firsts

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• I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits and property rights on the one hand and human welfare on the other, there should be no hesitation whatsoever in saying that we are going to place the human welfare consideration first and let property rights and financial interests fare as best they may.

  J. S. Woodsworth

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Anxiety, Despair

  Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

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• We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

  Mark Kingwell

  Creating, Aliens, Process

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.222, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Evil, Giving, Decision

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.208

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• When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Country, Loss

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• Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Passion, Wine

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• If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Future, Men, Intellectual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Ill Will, Criticism

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1708, ShandonPress

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• Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

  Victor Hugo

  Law, Boredom, Torment

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

  George Washington

  Style, May, Conviction

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.280

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• When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Communication, Track

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• In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Body, Action

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.35, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Mean, Men

  'Orthodoxy' (1908) ch. 4

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• We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  Doubt, Doe, Reason

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called “equality before the law” remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a “right over one's own person,” for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Country, Law, Long

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• Unconfusion submits
  its confusion to proof; it's
  not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

  Marianne Moore

  Confusion, Proof, Herod

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.135, Penguin

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• [O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Religion, Natural

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• Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Office, Presidential, Lasts

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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