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And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.


Daniel Defoe

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CHARLES ADAMS The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ev...
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Cursed is this world and cursed is all that is in this world, except the remembrance of God and that...
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THOMAS PAINE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
LUDWIG VON MISES Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you s...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.
ARMAND ASSANTE All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
MARCUS T. CICERO Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
LUC DE CLAPIERS We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE It's the image Daniel grew up with as a child. He's talked to Jesus all his life and that's how Dani...
JACK KENNY What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
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JOAN GRIM When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony as if Luce had just...
LAUREN KATE When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the so...
LOUIS SULLIVAN Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inh...
VOLTAIRE The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state c...
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BIBLE When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans
CANDICE BERGEN Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
CANDICE BERGEN If all of Mankind was in a trance, Mankind would be with God.
ALEXIS OCHOA Women are cursed and men are the proof.
ROSEANNE We are all part of divinity. All mankind are divine.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
COTTON MATHER They may perform all sorts of religious rituals and good actions, but without the Name, the egotisti...
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BEETHOVEN Cursed is the life, and cursed is the dwelling, of those who serve another.
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MARGERY ALLINGHAM The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of ...
MARIA DE BEAUSACQ Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. MENCKEN Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. MENCKEN Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. MENCKEN Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON The history of mankind is a history of war.
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DR HITESH C SHETH And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and sa...
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DANIEL DEFOE Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE He that is rich is wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
DANIEL DEFOE I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a ci...
DANIEL DEFOE The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
DANIEL DEFOE In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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DANIEL DEFOE The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will ...
DANIEL DEFOE Pride the first peer and president of hell.
DANIEL DEFOE Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
DANIEL DEFOE Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
DANIEL DEFOE Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
DANIEL DEFOE Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be fo...
DANIEL DEFOE When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crow...
DANIEL DEFOE All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we ...
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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DANIEL DEFOE All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE He that is rich is wise.
DANIEL DEFOE Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG