Quotes with maintained

  • Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
  • Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Voltaire The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bill Dedman Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
    Bertrand Russells best: silhouettes in satire
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Adam Clarke As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Albert Camus Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.
    Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Charles Dickens It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Aaron Burr Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
    Aaron Burr
    American politician and lawyer (1756 - 1836)
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  • George Washington Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Robert Warshow Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tacitus The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Emma Goldman The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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