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«Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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civilizations, cursed, cursed with, European, European civilization, heritage, mathematical, occurred, Pythagorean, Twenty Five
«I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.»
«My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.»
Author: Gerald R. Ford
(President, Vice President)
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enlightened, heritage, honors, self interest
«Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.»
«I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, / And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.»
«No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.»
«Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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ceasing, celebrate, chants, diviner, diviners, enters, enter upon, funeral, heritage, hymn, hymns, Lamentations, mortals, mortal man, Mortal Men, mournful, numbered
«Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
acquired, cultural, cultural heritage, heritage, highly, sexuality, valued
«Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
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code, diminished, exchange, freely, heritage, ideals, preserved, standards