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Machiavellis teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliame

Machiavellis teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. – Lord Acton

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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. – Lord Acton

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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton

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I havent chosen to make an issue of faith. – Peter Garrett

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Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. – Susan Taylor

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. – Blaise Pascal

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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. – David Coverdale

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Keep cool anger is not an argument. – Daniel Webster

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