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"Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies." »Thomas Love Peacock
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"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."" »Cicero
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"As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like." »Cicero
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"In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity." »Meister Eckhart
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"He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong." »The Talmud
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily." »George Santayana
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"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." »David H. Comins
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"Most readily measure the inches and feet of life's ups and downs, but it is only the foot forward that really counts." »Chase LeBlanc
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"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice." »Henry Taylor
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"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward 'I'm such a klutz' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver." »George
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"Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired." »The Hitopadesa
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"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." »Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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