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«Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.»
Author: Edmund Burke
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Philosopher,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
be born,
contract,
contracted,
contracting,
dead end,
Dead Ends,
generations,
obtained,
partnership,
partnerships
«Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.»
«Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained»
«Meeting the True One, Truth wells up. The truthful are absorbed into the True Lord. Intuitive understanding is obtained and one is welcomed with honor, through the Guru's Word, filled with the Fear of God. O Nanak, the True King absorbs us into Himself.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Keywords:
absorbed,
absorbs,
Fear of God,
guru,
gurus,
intuitive,
intuitive understanding,
obtained,
The Fear,
The Guru,
truthful,
welcomed,
Wells,
word of honor
«Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: / Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, / According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: / Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Apostle,
divine grace,
divine power,
escaped,
exceeding,
godliness,
multiplied,
obtained,
partakers,
pertain,
pertains,
peter,
saviour,
Simon,
Simon A,
Simon Peter,
whereby
«O jackal, leave aside the body of that man at once, whose hands have never given in charity, whose ears have not heard the voice of learning, whose eyes have not beheld a pure devotee of the Lord, whose feet have never traversed to holy places, whose belly is filled with things obtained by crooked practices, and whose head is held high in vanity. Do not eat it, O jackal, otherwise you will become polluted.»
Author: Chanakya
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Politician,
strategist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
beheld,
bellies,
Jackals,
obtained,
pollutes,
polluting,
practices,
traversed,
traversing
«Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...»
«Through selfless service, eternal peace is obtained.»
«Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.»
«One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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Keywords:
absurdities,
credit,
credulity,
fanaticism,
gross,
grossed,
grosser,
grossest,
gross out,
loaded,
obtained,
priestcraft,
scripture,
vulgar