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prescribes
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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amount, blows, continue, endurance, exact, imposed, injustice, limits, oppress, prescribed, prescribes, resisted, submit, submitting, tyrants
«Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
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arbitrary, inconstant, legislative, Legislative power, prescribes, subject to, vest, vested, vests
«For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
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agent, farther, free agent, Free agents, general interest, limitation, notion, prescribes, The General
«Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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all but, Book of, hides, page, prescribed, prescribes, the book
«Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Ignorance
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damnable, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, pills, prescribes
«(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Liberty
| Keywords:
enterprises, faction, factions, feeble, member, prescribed, prescribes, tranquil, withstand
«God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.»
«If you seek to fulfill low desires, why come here ? Come here only if you seek to earn Grace. Go to a hospital only when you are resolved to take the drug the physician prescribes and go through the regimen he lays down.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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fulfill, physician, prescribes, regimen, resolved
«Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Doctors,
Medicine
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cure, diseases, doctors, know nothing, medicines, prescribe, prescribes
«My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drinking,
Life,
Rules,
Smoking
| Keywords:
alcohol, cigars, intervals, meals, prescribed, prescribes, rite, rule of, smoking, The Rite