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By the same token it must follow that the state we now call a small state is in reality a power if it plays such a role in the development of civilization that it marches in the front ranks and wins victories in the fight for law which surpass...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about state, evolution, civilization, fight, reality, law, power

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in...

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about life

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on...

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about hate

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about truth

A computer that has surpassed its user's frustration...

A computer that has surpassed its user's frustration capacity (FC) will accelerate downwards at 9.8 meters per second squared.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and...

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Quote by Camille Paglia about religion, bodybuilding, mathematics, sport, science, art, magic, nature

True religion must fight against Evil in man and be aside him, being the only way to avoid existing Evil of the human self in another type of Evil that will be closer to Good or could even surpass it in Goodness. It will consequently determine...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about religion, self-control, human imperfections, perfection, being, fight, good, good luck, man

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about knowledge, wealth, books, man

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