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«Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
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existentialism, hero, saint, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.»
Author: John Schumaker
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cultural, disturbance, disturbances, domain, domains, fall into, mental disturbance, religious belief, religious beliefs, rituals, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Evil requires the sanction of the victim.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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requires, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions, The Victim, victim
«I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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«All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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partnership, partnerships, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
lamentable, sanction, sanctioned, sanctions
«To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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sanction, sanctioned, secular, supplies
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