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priests
«Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.»
Author: Antonio Vieira
(Diplomat, Missionary, Orator)
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by ear, ears, eyes-only, eyes, get in touch, preach, priests, sermons, The People, touch, touch on, touch up, why
«For her heart was cold to all but gold,And the rich came not to woo --But honored well are charms to sellIf priests the selling do.»
«Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man / it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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alliance, animated, conspiracy, dissimulation, domination, ever-present, impenetrable, priests, subsists, tenacious, There exists, unscrupulous, vengeance
«It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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civilization, common, common denominator, course, denominator, denominators, mankind, of course, powerful, priests, remains, so-called, Thousands
«Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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acute, generals, General will, Judges, killing, priests, secretly, The Verdict, triumph, verdicts
«Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: / And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.»
Author: Bible
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Children of Israel, covenant, covenanted, covenants, Israel, peculiar, priests
«I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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incessantly, kingdom, lay, laying on of hands, lay hands on, priests, repeat, surrounded
«In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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ages, all ages, crowned head, crowns, heads, hypocrites, kings, priests, thieves, thieving