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«I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring»
Author: William Archer
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anthropomorphic, at present, calamities, enduring, fallacies, fallacy, harmless, infirmity, noxious, suggest
«Bureaucracies themselves should be assumed to be noxious, authoritarian parasites on society, with a tendency to augment their own size and power and to cultivate a parasitical clientele in all classes of society.»
Author: William E. Simon
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assumed, augment, augmented, augments, Bureaucracies, clientele, noxious, parasitical
«Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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anti-Semitism, anti, cut out, noxious, Semitism, weed
«But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and Nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must Time obey»
«Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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beneficial, discriminating, give in, noxious
«Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed»
«Man degrades himself by consuming intoxicating drinks and non-vegetarian food and by indulging in smoking. These noxious habits affect the brain also.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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affect, consuming, drinks, indulging, intoxicating, noxious
«The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Culture
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at length, casting, expand, impediments, noxious
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