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«The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.»
«True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.»
«There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt»
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible»
«The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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«Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.»
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