However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding … - William Ernest Hocking

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I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.

William Ernest Hocking

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i. e. , the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

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A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

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For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

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We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

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Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

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Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

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