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«Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.»
Author: Howard Nemerov
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«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Ideas
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«Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, / And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.»
«VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? --Hannibal Hunsiker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools»
Author: Bible
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professing
«We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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