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• It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Passion, Selfishness, Doctrine

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• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

  Henry Adams

  Sex, Women, Humorous

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• America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Careers, America, Age

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• It is night,
  And it is vanity, and age
  Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
  The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

  Robert Lowell

  Fear, Heart, Night

  Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

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• My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Drinking, Night

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• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  Nancy Astor

  Funny, Women, Empowering

  My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

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• Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Soul, Needs

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.326, Anchor

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• Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  God, Spring, Creativity

  1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

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• For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

  John Calvin

  Fall, Grace, May

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 4 (Annotated Edition)”, p.382, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thinking, Apples

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• Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.

  Ken Ham

  Fun, Believe, Animal

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• It was never my intention to cause you pain. Whether you feel strongly or very little, that does not excuse thoughtless behavior." - Adam

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Pain, Doe, Littles

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• It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

  Saint Augustine

  Opposites, Race, Earth

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• When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. “Scott?” Adam said as we headed upstairs. “Yeah?” “Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don’t want to see you lying in the walkway again.” “Yessir!

  Patricia Briggs

  Lying, Men, Skins

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• The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

  Glen Duncan

  Two, Design, Variation

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life.

  Ryan Guzman

  Liars, Character, Hey

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Self Confidence, Boys, Hunting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Country, Differences

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• Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

  Patricia Briggs

  Cute, Hurt, Home

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• I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is.

  Kiersten White

  Kissing, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here.” "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.

  Patricia Briggs

  Credit, Done, Safe

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.135, Penguin

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• In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden

  John Hegley

  Dog, Real, Garden

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• Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.

  George Stigler

  Self, Competition, Important

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• The Bible says that God gave this earth to the sons of men ... and when [Adam] turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look where it left God. If left Him on the outside looking in ... He had no legal right to do anything about it, did He? ... He had injected Himself illegally into the earth -- what Satan had intended for Him to do was to fall for it -- pull off an illegal act and turn the light off in God, and subordinate God to himself ... He intended to get God into such a trap that He couldn't get out.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Fall, Son, Men

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• Adam was a super being when God created him...he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly...well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.

  Benny Hinn

  Mean, Moon, Air

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