William Woodruff famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
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When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.
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It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
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The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
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