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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems (Proximate Quotes)
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection (Proximate Quotes)
There is what I call the American idea... This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of freedom (Proximate Quotes)
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it (Proximate Quotes)
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts... If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up (Proximate Quotes)
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I’m wrong about that (Proximate Quotes)
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time (Proximate Quotes)
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems (Proximate Quotes)