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1." We do not deny that religionists have done much good; what we deny is that religious piety is the sole guarantee of moral virtue. * Humanists everywhere have defended the separation of religion and state."

Source:  Kurtz, Paul. "Humanist Manifesto 2000" Free Inquiry 19.4 Sept. 22 1999: 5

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2." F. synthesizes qualities which Josephus stressed in his rewriting of the biblical narratives: antiquity and good genealogy, wealth, and the four cardinal virtues--wisdom, courage, temperance/modesty, and justice--as well as piety."

Source:  ENDRES, JOHN C. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Theological Studies 61.2 June 1 2000: 351

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3." Amid these catastrophes, Chinese deities hovered above small groups of anxious supplicants, calling on them to strengthen the country and to enlist the help of the gods through a return to virtue and filial piety."

Source:  Lang, Graeme,Ragvald, Lars. "Spirit-writing and the development of Chinese cults" Sociology of Religion 59.4 Dec. 22 1998: 309-311

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4."... discouraging lesson. "Can God forget the piety of such a city," he wrote to the Macao Senate from Peking in 1656. "Where is the refuge and sanctuary of religion but in this city, which is gloriously called after the name of God."

Source:  Maxwell, Kenneth. "Macao: The Shadow Land" World Policy Journal 16.4 Dec. 22 1999: 73

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5."... be so ordered and settled by their endeavors, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations."

Source:  . "`We give thee humble and hearty thanks . . . '" Washington Times Nov. 25 1999: 2

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6."... and their worldly brand of piety against the marshy drabness of the Rhineland towns whose Jews wear peculiar horn-shaped hats and practice a more pinched form of religion."

Source:  Mintz, Alan. "A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages" Commentary 108.1 July 1 1999: 84

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7." The Imperial Rescript on Education (Kyoiku chokugo, 1890), which calls for citizens to practice filial piety toward the emperor and one's parents, became the official foundation for kokutai thought, referred to by Maruyama Masao as "nonreligious religion." Inoue..."

Source:  REPP, Martin. "Shinto und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens" Asian Folklore Studies 58.1 Apr. 1 2000: 244

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8." Rorty's attempt to incorporate the Socratic virtues of openmindedness and so on, then, fails to encompass other, more substantive (yet nondogmatic) Socratic virtues such as courage and piety needed to ground a robust and sustainable liberalism."

Source:  McPherran, Mark L. "Socrates' Education to Virtue: Learning the Love of the Noble" Review of Politics 61.1 Jan. 1 1999: 144-147

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9." The two virtues (Faith and Piety) on either side of that page's title-bearing plaque also closely resemble the Theological Virtues (Faith, Hope, and Charity) in the Paris miniature."

Source:  Calvillo, Elena. "Romanita and Grazia: Giulio Clovio's Pauline Frontispieces for Marino Grimani" Art Bulletin 82.2 June 1 2000: 280

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10." Professed religious were entrusted with embodying piety and virtue as an example to others."

Source:  LEHFELDT, ELIZABETH A. "Ruling Sexuality: The Political Legitimacy of Isabel of Castile [*]" Renaissance Quarterly 53.1 Mar. 22 2000: 31

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11." There is no taint here of Lionel Trilling's darker Frost, who "is not the Frost who controverts the bitter modern astonishment of human life" nor "reassures us by his affirmation of old virtues, simplicities, pieties, and ways of feeling" (qtd. in Parini, 944)."

Source:  SALTZMAN, ARTHUR M. "Futility and Robert Frost" Midwest Quarterly 41.3 Mar. 22 2000: 289

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12." Thus, as he himself emphasised, the purpose of The Praise of Folly was the same as that of the Enchiridion and his other works of Christian piety - to reform morals and to promote Christian virtue."

Source:  MacDonald, Stewart. "Erasmus and Christian Humanism" History Review Mar. 1 2000: 1

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13." Can the threat of hell prod people toward piety and virtue?"

Source:  Sheler, Jeffery L. "Hell hath no fury" U.S. News & World Report 128.4 Jan. 31 2000: 44

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14." Inscriptions praised her noble origins and authority as well as her liberality, piety, and virtue. [55] More unusual, but fitting, was "a small tablet," added to her tomb by the fifteenth century, that acclaimed Matilda's military talents, comparing..."

Source:  Holman, Beth L. "Exemplum and Imitatio: Countess Matilda and Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola at Polirone" Art Bulletin 81.4 Dec. 1 1999: 637

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15." Hypocrisy n. -- a pretending to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; esp., a pretense of virtue, piety, etc. Hypocrisy is the last sin in America."

Source:  Lempres, Michael. "Don't Let the `Hypocrite' Label Impede Airing of Moral Views" Insight on the News 15.8 Mar. 1 1999: 29-30

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16." Columnist Gary Wills, who told the president to resign, wishes the president had followed the example of Aeneas as described by Virgil in the "Aeneid." Aeneas embodies the Roman virtues of devotion to family, loyalty to the state, and genuine piety."

Source:  Fields, Suzanne. "The love song of J. Alfred Clinton" Washington Times Sept. 14 1998: 19

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17."... subversive ... and ... crystalize pre-existing divisions." The next section defines the "godly ministry" as those striving for an image of personal piety, exuberant practice, religious fervor, and patterns of sociability based on consensus rather than uniformity of belief."

Source:  HANFT, SHELDON. "Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline PuritanMovement, c. 1620-1643" History: Review of New Books 27.1 Sept. 22 1998: 23-24

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18." However, the yizkor service mollifies this dilemma of unacknowledged bias by appealing to a sense of familial or social piety: the virtues of the dead seek to moderate the shortcomings of the mourners, and the virtues of the..."

Source:  Jablon, Rachel Leah. "The William Brigman JPC Award winner; Witnessing as shivah; Memoir as yizkor: the formulation of Holocaust survivor literature as gemilut khasadim" Journal of Popular Culture 38.2 Nov. 1 2004: 306-325

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19." Justice is the cardinal virtue that embraces and directs the conduct of humans toward one another and to God in accord with the rational dictates of the natural law. (22) The duty of the sovereign..."

Source:  Skotnicki, Andrew. "Foundations once destroyed: the Catholic Church and criminal justice" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 792-817

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20." The latter, Elizabethan gentlemen would know, upheld virtue as its standard because the true purpose of the duello was to establish truth and justice according to God's will and not man's "rude will" (II.ii.3.28)."

Source:  Holmer, Joan Ozark. "Shakespeare and Violence" Shakespeare Studies 32 Jan. 1 2004: 357-369

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21."... and be eminently useful to Thy people, over whom he presides, by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality."

Source:  McCaslin, John. "INSIDE THE BELTWAY" Washington Times Jan. 19 1999: 8

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22."... dissociation of piety from theology there developed a "religion of the heart," in which feminine receptivity became the distinguishing mark of Christian piety and masculine initiative an obstacle to union..."

Source:  Nuechterlein, James. "The feminist church?" Public Interest Sept. 22 1999: 121

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23." He immersed himself in religion, threw out his modern, worldly books, and became "daffy with piety," in the words of his sister Elisabeth."

Source:  . "Treasures from the Van Gogh Museum" USA Today (Magazine) Nov. 1 1998: 52

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24." Measuring "piety" as a function of religious affiliation, church attendance, doctrinal orthodoxy, and self-rated importance of religion, Wulff concludes that "researchers have consistently found positive correlations with ethnocentrism, authoritarianism, dogmatism, social distance,..."

Source:  Shermer, Michael. "Why People Believe in God An Empirical Study on a Deep Question" Humanist 59.6 Nov. 1 1999: 20

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25." Personal piety and recognition of the role of emotion in religion were characteristic of their earlier lives, but after about 1630 they began reacting to the orders of William Laud, the high-churchman who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633."

Source:  Lehmberg, Stanford. "The Devil's Mousetrap: Redemption and Colonial American Literature" Renaissance Quarterly 52.2 June 22 1999: 580-582

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