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• The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Men, Evil, Giving

  "Gorbachevism". Book by Gorbachevism, 5th article, 1988.

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• we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Men, Squares, Law

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• Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tombstone, Past, Long

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• People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

  Mabel Seeley

  People, Fine, Possession

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• The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Sky, Afterlife, Pie

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• Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

  Paige Omartian

  Impact, Giving, Life Is

  Stormie Omartian, Paige Omartian (2013). “A Book of Prayers for Young Women”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

  Kyle Minor

  Land, Life And Death, Southern

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.

  Will Oldham

  Karma, Thinking, Balance

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: portside.org

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• Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

  Robert Boyle

  Understanding, Darkness, Eternity

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• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Perfect, Joy

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence--the work of redemption.

  Herrick Johnson

  Angel, Mean, Agony

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• [On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before knowing it: it devoured us, we devoured it, and the problem is not did we or didn't we want it. We consumed each other. It courses in our blood.

  Nina Berberova

  Hate, Men, Paris

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• O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

  Clare of Assisi

  Blessed, Riches, Poverty

  Saint Clare (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong (2006). “The Lady: Clare of Assisi : Early Documents”, p.22, New City Press

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• I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Children, New Beginnings, Fragility

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• Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

  Tasha Tudor

  Optimistic, Snakes, Looks

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• The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

  Saib Tabrizi

  Sea, Understanding, Ignorant

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• Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Father, Son, Peculiar

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• Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

  Paul A. Baran

  Country, Colonization, Treaties

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 6, (p. 174), 1957.

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• In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  War, Men, Gambling

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.

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• In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good.

  African Spir

  World, This World, Ideals

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

  Natalie Angier

  Love Is, Eternal Love, Myth

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.377, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  God, Tears, Duration

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.132

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• The eternal feminine doth draw us upward.
  [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Feminine, Draws

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• Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Horse, Race, Talking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.194

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