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doctrine
«Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Optimism
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doctrine, especially, Everything is Beautiful, fortunately, hereditary, including, optimism, ugly
«The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction»
«The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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admitted, assert, asserts, bulwark, cling, cling to, declare, declared, declared war, declare war, doctrine, freedom of speech, hush, hushed, Hushing, opposition, privileges, propagated, propagates, propagating, Rights and privileges, rulers, screened, scrutiny, sentiment, the press, unworthy, unworthy of, war cry
«The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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Christianity
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ancient, Ancient World, compromise, doctrine, fanaticism, inexorable, lie in, negotiation, negotiations, philosophical, preaching, similar
«Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.»
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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affirm, Affirmed, affirming, Christendom, confused, deluge, deluges, distinction, doctrine, doctrines, entail, entailed, entailing, foreordination, gore, gored, gores, implication, ink, occur, occurrence, occurrences, perdition, predestination, programme, programmed, reverent, spared, The Deluge, with that
«OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acceptably, accustom, accustomed, aped, apes, aping, bad faith, Blind Faith, contagious, disorder, disproof, doctrine, Everything is Beautiful, expound, expounded, expounding, expounds, fortunately, grin, hereditary, inaccessible, including, mischance, optimism, tenacity, treatment, yielding
«The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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doctrine, equality, poison, poisonous, preached, There exists
«The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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distinction, doctrine, implication, licentiousness, protean, repetition, shape, varying