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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. ↗

— Felix Adler

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We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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