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«If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established»
«Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail.»
Author: Eric Clark
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Advertising
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brainwash, brainwashing, brink, harmless, impotent, mirror image, overnight, prevail, subtle
«Dear God,Please bring your LightInto the darkened cornersOf our world today.May Divine LoveCast out all fear,And peace prevail on earth.Forgive us,Oh God,For our errors.Forgive others for theirs,As well.Please help us, God.Amen»
«And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppressions, and there prevail justice and Faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression»
«But oars alone can ne'er prevailTo reach the distant coast;The breath of heaven must swell the sail,Or all the toil is lost.»
«And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.»
«A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Chance,
Wisdom
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masses, prevail, the Action
«He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.»
«All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Civil rights,
Democracy,
Freedom
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all too, bear in mind, cases, Equal rights, majority, minority, prevail, principle, protect, reasonable, rightful, sacred
«If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
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by law, fanaticism, freedom of religion, guaranteed, inquisition, inquisitions, in practice, in theory, overbear, overbearing, overborne, practice of law, prevail, public opinion, the Inquisition