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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything. ↗

— Maimonides

#certain #certain things #comprehend #does #everything

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. ↗

— John Major

#i #minister #press #prime #prime minister

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#aspect #being #beings #bound #chain

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. ↗

— John Major

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Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. ↗

— Laurette Taylor

#concept #emotional #mental #physical #picture

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. ↗

— John Major

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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? ↗

— John Major

#conflict #established #happens #parliament #scottish

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. ↗

— John Major

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