Pauline Gedge Quotes
Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed monotonously into the fountain’s basins. Khaemwaset held his fingers under the glittering flow and found it silky and warm.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
Natalie Massenet
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scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.
Olympia Snowe
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The Constitution of the United States has been mentioned...as the basis of wise decisions in fundamental principles as applied to all matters pertaining to law and order, because it was framed by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. But in addition to that inspired document, we must always keep in mind that the greatest weapons that can be forged against any false philosophy are the positive teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Harold B. Lee
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
Saint Augustine
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All of our dreams can come true...
Walt Disney
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
Elizabeth Janeway
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It's just working people one by one, one at a time.
Dennis Hastert
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You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.
Brian Perkins
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Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
Ernest Hemingway
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
Epictetus
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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
Hannah Arendt
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
John Milton
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Everybody has some good in them and they can be relied on.
William Emerson Arnett
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
Nikolai Gogol
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Jonathan Swift
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I was on the bench watching and I wanted to be out there competing against him. He's a heck of a player. When you run into great players you want to be out there competing with them.
Eddie Charles Jones
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Mama and Papa are more to blame for delinquency than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.
Harry S Truman
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed monotonously into the fountain’s basins. Khaemwaset held his fingers under the glittering flow and found it silky and warm.
Pauline Gedge