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• Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Should Have

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Generations, Looks, Inferiority

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.196, Routledge

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• By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.

  Thomas Traherne

  Christian, Angel, Roots

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.161, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .

  Sri Aurobindo

  Garden, Soul, Humanity

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

  Martin Luther

  Lord, Spoiled, Creatures

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• It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Self, Heaven

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• Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

  Roger Bacon

  Philosophy, Perfection, Age

  "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).

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• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Running, Children, Play

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.44, Arktos

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• In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Fashion, Philosophy, Views

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Apples, Mirrors, Rocks

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• Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Fall, Way

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• Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Years, Giving, Fifty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.131, Jerome K. Jerome

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• It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that
  great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Book, Character, Views

  "The Heritage We Renounce". Collected Works, Volume 2, pp. 491 - 534, www.marxists.org.

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• No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

  Jim Elliot

  Sleep, People, Example

  "Shadow of the Almighty". Book by Elisabeth Elliot, Chapter 4, 1989.

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• A funny thing is that you can't search me on Twitter because Adam Levine dominates there.

  Adam DeVine

  Funny Things

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• The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mistake, Writing, Order

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

  Franz Kafka

  Pet, Paradise, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

  Max Lucado

  Grateful, Believe, Garden

  "An Interview With Max Lucado". Interview with David Jones, thebrinkonline.com.

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• After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.

  Philip Pullman

  Fall, Discovery, Clothes

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• I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, Flower, Miracle

  1954 The Doors of Perception.

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• I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Angel, Fallen, Frankenstein Novel

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.120, Collector's Library

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• The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.

  Philip Pullman

  Clever, Book, Perfect

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• Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Mom, Teacher, Smart

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• Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Running, Father

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

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• There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.

  Arthur Laffer

  Moving, Weekend, Differences

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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