The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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