Propagation Quotes
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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.
Adolf Hitler
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If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.
James Hutton
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Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
Ray Bradbury
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Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
Remy de Gourmont