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This is one of the most intricate problems of religion.

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The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement.

If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philosophy.

FM 44 as cited in: Oliver Leaman (2002)

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.

Ralph Lerner (1974)

The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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