#stance

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.


James Madison


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I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.


Ella Maillart


#concept #even #feeling #i #i can

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.


Ella Maillart


#anywhere #cannot #distances #geographic #horizon

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.


Maimonides


#cannot #degree #distance #each #every

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.


John Major


#circumstances #economic #euro #wrong

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.


Miriam Makeba


#amongst #arms #become #buying #each

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.


Nicolas Malebranche


#contains #divine #earth #feed #find

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.


Murray Gell-Mann


#circumstances #detected #dim #effect #equipment

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.


Carrie Chapman Catt


#distance #future #give #need #needs

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.


Jennie Churchill


#forever #shadows #substance #throwing