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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.


Rumi


#cup #disappear #fills #front #hurt

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.


Bertrand Russell


#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#be thankful #being #benefits #command #earth

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.


Bill Shuster


#action #against #america #appropriate #blue

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.


William Robertson Smith


#binding #essential #force #had #mythology

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.


William Robertson Smith


#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.


Sophocles


#done #endure #injustice #light #must

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.


Huston Smith


#art #difficult #difficulty #eases #ennobling

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.


Andrea Martin


#am #armenian #country #everything #family






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