George Dana Boardman Pepper quotes
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“The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.”
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“The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.”
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“We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.”
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“The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.”
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“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
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“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
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“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
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Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Concept of Freedom"), 1990.
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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.”
Source : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153
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“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”