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  • Indeed, their religion cultivated the social as the means of ultimating good affections.

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

  • Throes and agonies, pregnant more of bliss than pain while ultimating in the outer world the sentiment which makes Heaven within -- "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" -- a sentiment on which all happiness and all order depends.

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

  • 4. The GSE's padded their books and used lobbyists to convince Congress to look the other way 5. the mortgage markets shifted from banks holding thei own paper and ultimating risking their depositors funds to middle men like counrywide that bundled and made these loans into securities 6. The bond rating firms WERE USELESS and in the tank 7. The financial industry got greedy

    So is Franklin Raines an Obama economic advisor or not? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Where this is the case, mutual aversion ultimating itself on both sides in acts of discourtesy, will ever keep alive a spirit of antagonism among the various classes of society; and this will disappear in proportion as society becomes sufficiently Christianized to perceive and acknowledge that every human being is worthy of respect so far as he fulfils the duties of his station; and that we cannot be discourteous even towards the evil and the unfaithful, without indulging feelings of pride and disdain that are incompatible with Christian meekness.

    The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler

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