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• Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion because I wanted to know. For hours you sat in hospitals and never, not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should. You gave up work for me, friends for me, four years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever. You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said, 'That's enough. Stop now.

  Jenny Downham

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.307, Random House

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• Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Animal, Thinking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering,I thought,except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

  Patricia Briggs

  Eye, Thinking, Talking

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• But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

  Gayle Forman

  Needs, Gestures, Way

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.60, Penguin

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• In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed to me that that might have brought them to some essence of language. Once I "saw" the city, I knew it was real. once I saw that a poem was a house, i knew it was real and could go back to it or else write a flurry of poems around it, both worked.

  Gregory Orr

  Real, Writing, Essence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John Adam has filled a gap in that venerable genre with his painstaking but simple mathematical descriptions of familiar, mundane physical phenomena. This is nothing less than a mathematical field guide to inanimate nature.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Animal, Simple, Understanding

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• We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

  Martin Luther

  Flower, Fall, Might

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• Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mean, Dinner, Said

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• It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Sleep, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Children, Real, Community

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• Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, War, Years

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• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

  Herman Melville

  World, Paper, Ill

  Herman Melville (2003). “Moby-Dick”, p.604, Bantam Classics

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• But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

  Emilia Lanier

  Weakness, Might, Faults

  1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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• Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.

  Emilia Lanier

  Mother, Giving, Tree

  1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Animal, Humanity, Lambs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society

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• There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

  Alexander Pope

  Loneliness, Solitude, Devil

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

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• Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Keys, Long

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

  Ken Ham

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Angel, Son, Animal

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 60,

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• When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

  Thomas Malthus

  Errors, Able, Causes

  Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  F. H. Bradley

  Men, Wife, Pity

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, no. 94, 1930.

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• God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Children, Men, Jehovah

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• The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

  Yip Harburg

  Ems, Littles, Lord

  "Finian's Rainbow (The Begat)". Book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, 1947.

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• The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

  Tim LaHaye

  Earth, Return, Sin

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• St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.

  Olivier Clement

  Fall, Animal, Two

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