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• I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner - and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers [...] a miracle from God.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Real, Fall, Long

  "Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God'" by Vivian Paulsen, edition.cnn.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

  Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

  Men, Desire, Firsts

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• Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal,
  Daughter of Elysium!
  Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing
  Goddess, to thy shrine we come.
  Thy sweet magic brings together
  What stern Custom spreads afar;
  All men become brothers
  Where thy happy wing-beats are.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Daughter, Sweet, Brother

  "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller, (Stanza 1), 1785.

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• Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.

  Thomas Huxley

  Character, Years, Growth

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

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• Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
  Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
  Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
  Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Men, Rocks

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.686

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• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wings, Promise, Age

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• Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Thinking, Light, Bayonets

  Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.111

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Military, Real

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• Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

  W. H. Davies

  Sleep, Butterfly, Night

  William Henry Davies, “Joy And Pleasure”

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• You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their song spread all over your being.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Future, Listening Ear

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• The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Funny, Humor, Keys

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Hawks, Propaganda

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• ... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

  Lazare Carnot

  Beautiful, Circles, Ideas

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• It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Gossip, Speak, Easy

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• Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

  Sue Thoele

  Cat, Guilt, Fur

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• Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Believe, Men, Vegetarianism

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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• Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.

  Philip K. Dick

  Long Ago, California, Neon

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Oil, Gossip, Calumny

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• May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

  Donald Bradman

  Wings, World, May

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• While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

  Eusebius

  Queens, Saving, Messages

  Eusebius (2012). “Eusebius: The Church History”, p.54, Kregel Academic

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• [About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

  I. L. Peretz

  Children, Israel, Land

  "Der Dichter" (1910). "Alle Verk," X. 24,

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• But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

  Saadi

  Feet, Hands, Bird

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• Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks.

  Corra May Harris

  Real, Vanity, Peaceful

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• Every thought is public,
  Every nook is wide;
  Thy gossips spread each whisper,
  And the gods from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Sides, Wide

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291

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