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If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
William H. Seward

Wise, Influence, Boundaries

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
William Falconer

Same, Broken, Purpose

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer

Battle, Order, Line

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
J. William Fulbright

May, Law, Others

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Islam, Democracy, Possible

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins

May, Play, Makes

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Necessary, Infinite, Commence

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
Adolf Loos

Art, Everything, Him

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
Paul Harris

Religion, Time, Good

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander

Experience, Words, Two

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
Samuel Alexander

Person, May, Same

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
Arne Jacobsen

Thought, Working, Company

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler

Nature, Human, Themselves

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
Joseph Butler

Doubt, Eye, Intended

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright

Religion, May, Belief

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Time, Hero, Sometimes

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
Georg Simmel

Between, Speak, Transition

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
Georg Simmel

Life, Time, Relations

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
Walter Lang

God, Needed, Original

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold

Religion, True, Meaning

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Study, Choice, Since

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.
Sanjay Kumar

Service, Few, India

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
Max Beckmann

Picture, Three, Space

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
Vinoba Bhave

Freedom, Two, Sweet

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick

Old, Succeed, Times

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
Saul Williams

Teacher, Mother, Father

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
Adam Schiff

Failure, Find, Far

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe

Home, Long, Same

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
Ulrich Beck

Experience, Seriously, Open

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
Ulrich Beck

Government, Democracy, Nation

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