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«Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States»
Author: Burton Kendall Wheeler
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Peace
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Congress of, Congress of the United States, conscription, militarism, peacetime, regimentation, The Congress, undertaken, United States Congress
«For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.»
Author: John Winthrop
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byword, falsely, hill, The City of God, undertaken, withdraw, withdrawing, withdraws
«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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Heroism
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accounted, cheerfully, dangers, denials, heroism, human soul, humble, latent, mutilation, mutilations, privation, privations, renounced, renounces, renouncing, sicknesses, sufferings, the self, The Sickness, toils, undertaken, veterans
«I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government»
«Parenting is an awesome task. It is my job as a professional to be sure that mothers, fathers and entire families see it also as the most rewarding one they have ever undertaken.»
Author: Ruth W. Lubic
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Education,
Family,
Parents
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awesome, parenting, professional, rewarding, to be sure, undertaken
«INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, admissible, Assyria, battle of, Blenheim, Caesar, commercial, competent, confession, convict, convicted, convicts, courts, court decision, Court of, court of law, destitute, destitute of, established religion, examination, executed, flaw, hearsay, hearsay evidence, in-law, inadmissible, Julius, Julius Caesar, juries, laws of logic, magicians, malevolent, military action, momentous, of value, proceedings, quoted, records, revelation, Rules of, rule out, scourge, scourged, scourges, Scourge of God, scriptures, sorcery, sworn, testimony, The Battle, the Battle of, The Court, undertaken, unfit, unimpeachable, unsworn, Word of God, world record
«I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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Respect
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aims, arises, distinctly, erect, erecting, erects, foundation, hut, mischief, sufficiently, The Foundation, tower, Towered, undertaken
«All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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Labor
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painstaking, undertaken, uplift, uplifted, uplifting, uplifts
«Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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advantages, enterprises, hazard, magnifies, magnifying, undertaken