Adam Quotes - Page 24

• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

  Mary Astell

  Mean, Deceived, Apostles

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• Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

  Stella Benson

  Blessed, Blessing, Apples

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and immortality. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Now may he follow Him; and so, when the darkness is thickest around him and within, not walk in it, but see the Light of Life.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Son, Men, Light

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• The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.

  Louie Giglio

  War, Men, Garden

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• Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Agriculture, Survival

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Wisdom, Reality, Political

  Jean Baptiste Say (1936). “Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• When Adam found his rib was gone
  He cursed and sighed and cried and swore
  And looked with cold resentment on
  The creature God has used it for.

  John Hollander

  Ribs, Gone, Resentment

  John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”

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• Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

  Thomas Malthus

  Looks, Consumption, Labourers

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406

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• Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

  Michael Lewis

  Children, Hands, Parent

  Michael Lewis (1998). “Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future”, p.21, Guilford Press

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• The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes the person. Adam Smith and Karl Marx both recognized the extent to which people's attitudes and behaviors take shape out of the experiences they have in their work.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Jobs, Attitude, Agreement

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• I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

  "Big Fat Lies" by Steven Rendell, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen, www.motherjones.com. May 1995.

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• All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.

  Charles Hodge

  Children, Blood, Soul

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.545

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• So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

  Adam Kirsch

  Writing, Intelligent, Answers

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• Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me
  from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and
  frightening mores provide an unforgettable backdrop to the story of Lilia
  Desjardins, the shade-hunter, and fallen-angel turned cop, Adam Montgomery.
  It’s Matrix, Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into a riveting love story
  and made better. Perfect. A must-read by an author who keeps you on the
  edge of your seat.

  Linnea Sinclair

  Letting Go, Angel, Eerie

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• As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Men, Apples, Should

  Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.84, Broadway Books

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• This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

  Reks

  Rap, Past, Apples

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• Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

  Arianna Huffington

  Air, Water, Car

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• There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

  Christine de Pizan

  Lying, Feet, Ribs

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Errors, Lord

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.300

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• Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could fly like a bird. B. Adam could swim underwater and breathe like a fish. Adam went to the moon. Adam walked on water. Adam was a super being; He was the first superman that lived. Adam had dominion over the sun, moon & stars. Christians do not have Christ in their hearts. Sow a big seed, when you confess it, you are activating the supernatural forces of God.

  Benny Hinn

  Christian, Stars, Heart

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• Adam was a super being when God created him...

  Benny Hinn

  "Benny Hinn and Beyond: Word Faith movements hidden agenda: The Joker, The Guru and the Jack of Spades" [CD Edition 1 of 2], The Underground Christian Network, www.sermonaudio.com. April 21, 2006.

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• If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them and they all go home and they that they've got this special relationship.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Children, Home, Special

  The MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 19, 2006.

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• I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.

  David Cheriton

  Play, Looks, Behaviour

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• I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Men, Inquiry, Too Much

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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