“ Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were. ”
- Cokie Roberts- Copy
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“ What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ”
- Edward Lee Thorndike- Copy
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“ Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ”
- Anthony Sampson- Copy
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“ Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble. ”
- Jaroslav Pelikan- Copy
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“ I should like to see any power in this world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people whose wars have been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard and whose prayers are no more answered… ”
- William Saroyan- Copy
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“ When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
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“ When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. ”
- Daniel Bell- Copy
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“ If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry. ”
- Jonathan Rauch- Copy
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“ Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics. ”
- Max Weber- Copy
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“ No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. ”
- Alan Biole- Copy
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“ Mothers work, not upon canvas that shall perish, nor marble that crumbles into dust, but upon mind, upon spirit, which is to last forever, and which is to bear, for good or evil, throughout its duration, the impress of a mother's plastic hand. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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