Ellen G. White Quotes
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
Quotes to Explore
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
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We, as a society, will benefit from the interest young people show beginning at first, second, and third grades. As a result, there's great promise in the future.
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I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
