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• In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Gentleman, Chairs

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• The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy; because he who does not believe is already judged, In such a case it should be said of him: 'If salt should lose its savor, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.'

  Pope Innocent III

  Believe, Men, Feet

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• Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

  Jock Sturges

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

  Jock Sturges

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Paul Weyrich

  Children, Home, Boys

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• Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Lying, Writing

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.38, Algonquin Books

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• As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

  Josef Albers

  Exercise, Color, Different

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine. Archaeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics.

  Millar Burrows

  Views, Reliability, Records

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• Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'

  Millar Burrows

  Real, Yale, Views

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• There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

  Jim Leach

  Optimism, Littles, Pessimism

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• In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

  Felix Morley

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, People, Desire

  "The Good Society". Book by Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, Steven M. Tipton, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler (Chapter 1), 1991.

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• It's still the same old story,
  A fight for love and glory,
  A case of do or die!
  The world will always welcome lovers
  As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Fighting, Stories, World

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• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

  Jan Struther

  Couple, Successful, Trying

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• Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

  Keith O'Brien

  Majority, Belief, Honest

  "Paedophile priests have left Catholics confused and demoralised, cardinal to say" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Cognition, Movement, Boundaries

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• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  Harold H. Greene

  Thinking, Umpires, Justice

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• All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Past, Gmos, Guilty

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.59, Routledge

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• In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

  Jane Espenson

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  "How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul". www.latimes.com. March 20, 2005.

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• Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

  Eddie Condon

  Jazz, Said, Clarinet

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• If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  People, Expectations, Good Things

  Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books

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• I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

  Jan Egeland

  Thinking, Challenges, Hopeless

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Aggravation, Two

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• The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner’s stand. It would rank first in plasticity.

  Kató Lomb

  Play, Firsts, Roles

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