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Letter "S" » sect
«And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said»
Author: Christopher Columbus
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Adventurer,
Navigator)
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Keywords:
Catholic,
Christian faith,
Christopher,
Christopher Columbus,
Columbus,
devoted,
heresies,
highness,
Highnesses,
idolatries,
princes,
propagation,
resolved,
sect,
thereof
«But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.»
«But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.»
«Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Memory
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Keywords:
creditor,
creditors,
debtors,
observers,
sect,
superstitious
«EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Ate,
controversy,
dispute,
Eucharist,
hundred thousand,
religious sect,
sect,
unhappily,
unsettle,
unsettled,
unsettling
«Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
crude,
cruder,
For any,
honorable,
indifferent,
name,
no matter,
persecution,
persecutions,
required,
sect,
sort,
sort of
«But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes»
«Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect»
«A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.»
«Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror»