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• Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign.
  De Cometis

  Albertus Magnus

  Kings, Philosophy, War

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• The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Learning, Self, Growing

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• A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Dream, Baby, Real

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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• It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Believe, School

  Marie Winn (1983). “Children Without Childhood”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• This determined bias against religion, especially Christianity, is clearly evident when viewed against the religious heritage of American culture as revealed in the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 452. 1892.

  Mathew Staver

  Christian, Religious, Church

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• It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mean, Self, Privilege

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• It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.

  David Hume

  Religious, Couple, Cat

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

  Novalis

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• You know, I've had blowups with my coach too. The same thing happens, it just wasn't as evident back then because they didn't have so many cameras and ways to see things happen.

  Joe Montana

  Cameras, Way, Coaches

  "From XLIII: An interview with Joe Montana". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. February 1, 2009.

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

  George W. Romney

  Prayer, Decision, Firsts

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• People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.

  Rachel Johnson

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  "Rachel Johnson: the iron lady" by Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.

  Christine Caine

  Biblical, Emotional, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from May 08, 2015

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• Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

  Alain de Botton

  Summer, Berries, Might

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Flattery, Accord

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.323, Stanford University Press

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• If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, People, Levels

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.348, Princeton University Press

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• By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Wisdom, Art

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• An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Equality, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Edwin Anderson Alderman (1928). “Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War”

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• In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Law

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• Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Character, Men

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• I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Self, Generations

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.91, Algora Publishing

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• Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?

  Jean-Luc Nancy

  Eye, Inward, Withdrawal

  Jean-Luc Nancy (2009). “Listening”, p.10, Fordham University Press

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• The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.

  Roderick E. Stevens

  Goal, Progress, Fascination

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• I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.

  Muriel Beadle

  Believe, Intelligent, Should Have

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• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

  John Dryden

  Philosophy, School, Science

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

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