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• A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

  H. L. Mencken

  Change, Loyalty, Time

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

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• What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

  H. L. Mencken

  Voting, Democracy, Noble

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• You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Genius, World

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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• The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Freedom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  School, Political, Politics

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• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Long, People

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• The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

  J. G. Holland

  Intelligent, Special, Moments

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 279, 1895.

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• Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Law, Errors, Justice

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.91

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• The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

  Angelina Grimke

  Libertarian, Unqualified, Blind

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin

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• Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Expression

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• People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ecosystems, People

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• This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sex, Arrogance, Forgiving

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Names, Virtue, Reason

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• This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Believe, Law

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• The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

  Alan Watts

  Simple, World, Impermanence

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.58, Vintage

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• The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving Money, People, Church

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• To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism.

  Quintus Ennius

  Father, Latin, Writing

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• A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

  William Arthur Ward

  Spirit, Ghost, Christianity

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Law, Passing Away, Use

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Unity of Evangelical and Apostolical Teaching: Sermons Preached Mostly in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.19

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Moss, Cobwebs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

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• Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Moving, Men, World

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1867). “Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology”, p.26

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• The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Needs, World, Taught

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• That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Practice

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.32, 谷月社

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