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«They politics like ours profess, / The greater prey upon the less.»
Author: Matthew Green
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«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Freedom,
Mankind
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«They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.»
«ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.»
«We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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attainable, contemplate, dead soul, get rid of, profess, professes, professing, The Argument