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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.


Patrick Geddes


#also #civic #each #exerts #formation

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.


Benjamin F. Wade


#am #considerations #current #drag #exerted

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.


Samuel Johnson


#doing #doing good #exert #giving #good

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.


John Thorn


#born #capital #control #exert #following

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.


Henry Knox


#constitution #effect #exerted #federal #frame

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.


Dean Koontz


#beings #exert #god-given #god-given right #human

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.


Abdurrahman Wahid


#democracy #exert #god #i #move

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.


Frances Wright


#exert #expense #injury #justly #liberties

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.


Markus Wolf


#away #case #cliche #done #exerted

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.


Frances Wright


#evil #exert #good #ignorance #knowledge






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