#pure

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. ↗

— John Locke

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. ↗

— Lance Loud

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The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. ↗

— James Madison

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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