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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.


Blaise Pascal

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CARL LEVIN The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Unity without love;Nature has forced us all to live together on earth,but it's unity without love wh...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the mult...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your attitude is a multitude of aptitude and rectitude which decides your altitude in plenitude.
VIKRANT PARSAI Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I think the message has been delivered. Baseball is baseball in all parts of the world ? be it in th...
FREDERICH CEPEDA Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICœUR Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICOEUR Life is not meant to follow a pattern. Every moment has a multitude of realms.
AVIJEET DAS In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost....
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BENITO MUSSOLINI It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mis...
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JAMES DENNEY The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the...
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JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
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JAMES DENNEY Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken...
GEORGE V. HIGGINS Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of...
DANIEL P. FULLER There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
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JIM COLEMAN Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the mult...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the momen...
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APURVA GAGLANI Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
MAAJID NAWAZ Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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LARS OHLY From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth b...
LAO TZU Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the...
FERNAND BRAUDEL Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the...
FERNAND BRAUDEL The multitude is always in the wrong.
WENTWORTH DILLON, EARL OF ROSCOMON The multitude is always in the wrong.
PAULO FREIRE The multitude is always in the wrong
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GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit...
HENRY MILLER All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits...
HENRY MILLER It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a...
ROLAND ALLEN No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in mult...
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DAVID L. EDWARDS The secret to the future is not about survival, it's about unity.
LOU ANGELI The multitude is always wrong.
PROVERB The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. -Pascal.
PASCAL Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individua...
SIGMUND FREUD Tibet is now in its best development period, which features the unity of various ethnic groups, stab...
JIA QINGLIN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
BIBLE Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, ...
RICHARD HOOKER All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto...
BIBLE Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a heal...
TAE YUN KIM Christian Unity is not a secular unity, and must be prompted by no secular motive. The unity we seek...
G. T. MANLEY In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The unity issue is obviously going to take centre stage and the party leadership is ready to roll ou...
COMMA SEREMA Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperi...
AYAD ALLAWI Whatever may be our differences of colour, culture, and class, the unity that is ours in Christ is g...
AMBROSE REEVES Division has always been a disease of the church... The Love Feast, which should have been the sign ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Failed experiments in ecumenism and social politics suggest that unity is not to be found in mass mo...
SAM PORTARO A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor
SENECA The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS T. CICERO Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To address the multitude is to speak parables
SUNDAY ADELAJA The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without delibera...
EDMUND BURKE The real unity the spectacle proclaims masks the class division on which the capitalist mode of prod...
GUY DEBORD The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had s...
JACOB BRONKOWSKI The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.
UMBERTO ECO Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER In the presence of multitude of advises is a golden advise.
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PETER JACKSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultima...
DADA BHAGWAN A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HOMER A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
CONN IGGULDEN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful
SAMUEL JOHNSON Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledg...
RUTH NANDA ANSHEN Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical concilia...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Thank God, our Christian chance is not permanently gone from us [in world affiars]. Ecclesiastics se...
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Love makes unity to flourish,but unity without love is vanity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things qu...
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BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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