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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.