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" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "
Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the Young Man and the Sabbath School - Page 148
by William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 200 pages
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Isolating Proliferators and Sponsors of Terror: The Use of Sanctions and the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade - History - 2007 - 96 pages
...response. Someone who knew quite a lot about big problems facing our nation had this to say back in 1862, "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the...and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is knew, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our...
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Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement

Peter Schweizer, Wynton C. Hall - Political Science - 2007 - 188 pages
...it so. Yes, our land has changed since the Supreme Court decision of 1883. As Lincoln once observed: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we...is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must first disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save the Union." To my friends from the South, I would...
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The Assault on Reason

Albert Gore - Political Science - 2007 - 332 pages
...all of the consequences that the scientific community has warned us about. Abraham Lincoln once said, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country."...
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Presidential Secrecy and the Law

Robert M. Pallitto, William G. Weaver - Law - 2007 - 288 pages
...context of global terror. For example, former attorney general Ashcroft has quoted Lincoln to say that "the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present," and "as our case is new, so must we think anew, and act anew."46 Lurking beneath that question, however,...
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Brief Intervention for School Problems: Outcome-informed Strategies

John Joseph Murphy, Barry L. Duncan - Education - 2007 - 225 pages
...new. Find a way. Just do it! 8. What are the implications of brief intervention for training programs? The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN Consider how practitioners have traditionally been trained: In graduate school we...
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Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order

Jeffrey C. Herndon - Philosophy - 2007 - 207 pages
...years later, Abraham Lincoln would consider the disorder of his historical circumstance and assert, "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."15 It was in that same spirit that Machiavelli undertook to address the problem of order. In...
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Dispatches From The Global Village

Derek Evans - 194 pages
...not simply of well-being, but of basic survival. Lincoln put it well in his annual message of 1862: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...
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Applebee's America: How Successful Political, Business, and Religious ...

Douglas B. Sosnik, Ron Fournier, Matthew J. Dowd - Business & Economics - 2007 - 276 pages
...words of Abraham Lincoln, who called on his generation to have the courage and foresight to change. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present," Lincoln said. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our...
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Giving Faith a Second Chance: Restarts, Mulligans and Do-Overs

Christopher B. Wolf - Church work with ex-church members - 2007 - 196 pages
...need to be let go? CHAPTER 26 A SECOND CHANCE OFFERS Release There is something else to hold onto. "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present." — Abraham Lincoln "What's past is prologue." — William Shakespeare The Tempest Perhaps the hardest...
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America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History

Organization of American Historians - United States - 2008 - 354 pages
...can succeed only by concert. It is not "can any of us imagine better?" but, "can we all do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the...then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of...
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