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• I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.

  Alexander Spotswood

  Husband, Taken, Virginia

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• The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

  Saadi

  Son, Names, Essence

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• The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Timothy Leary

  Tree, Jehovah, Fruit

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• When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Apples, Firsts

  'Ruth'

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

  Rumi

  Christian, Buddhist, Ocean

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• I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.

  Dion Boucicault

  Funny Valentines Day, Wish, Ribs

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• God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

  Beth Moore

  Sleep, Men, Together

  Beth Moore (2004). “Things Pondered: From the Heart of a Lesser Woman”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.

  Boy George

  Gay, Long, Different

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

  John Calvin

  Children, Fall, Together

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• [Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Men, Thinking

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• God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Self, Needs

  "Worship: The Missing Jewel". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, June 1, 1992.

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• All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Greatness, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1098, Delphi Classics

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• Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Grateful, Cutting

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

  R. H. Tawney

  Inspirational, Children, Work

  R. H. TAWNEY (1920). “THE ACQUISITIVE SOCIETY”

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• Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Arms, Sofas

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.330, Scholastic Inc.

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• He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every stoplight on the way out of town. "Put your back into it!" Gansey shouted breathlessly. He was talking to himself, of course, or to the gearbox. "Don't let it smell fear on you!" Blue wailed each time the engine revved up, but not unhappily. Noah played the drums on the back of Ronan's headrest. Adam, for his part, was not wild, but he did his best not to appear unwild, so as not to ruin it for the others.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Talking, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

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• If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Pride, Ifs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Proud, Hated, Wretched

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times.

  George W. Bush

  New York, Humor, League

  "Gore, Bush Kickoff Labor Day Tours". abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2000.

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• Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

  Ted Malloch

  Motivation, Competition, Moral

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

  Zak Orth

  Names, Born, Middle

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  Barnabe Barnes

  Men, Dust, World

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• Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic.

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  Science, Men, Fire

  "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.

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