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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#human progress #individual #liberty #necessary #postulate

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#apostle #back #before #bible #birth

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community. ↗

— Jai Rodriguez

#boy #community #gay #gay community #just

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#care costs #controls #costs #government #healthcare

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

#being #decided #down #had #numerous

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million. ↗

— Joe Baca

#delivers #every #increases #mail #million

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

I leave from where the apostle arrived. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#arrived #i #leave #where