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• A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

  Deborah Smith

  Children, Husband, Smart

  Deborah Smith (2009). “On Bear Mountain”, p.229, BelleBooks

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• The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

  Kathleen Norris

  Ordinary, Baking, Bread

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.15, Paulist Press

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• the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Two, People

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Beautiful, Successful

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

  Dave Reichert

  Growth, Immigration, Economic

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• There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?

  Regina Doman

  Men, Guy, Age

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• Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.

  Iain Benson

  Freedom, Democracy, Way

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• Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  New Relationship, Essence, Liberty

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Gratitude, Men, Answers

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• To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical-as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously ... It would be most satisfactory of all if physis and psyche (i.e., matter and mind) could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Reality, Views

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• Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

  Michael Shermer

  God, Two, Soul

  "Why people believe weird things". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

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• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Powerful, Rights, Goal

  Isaiah Berlin (1991). “The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas”, Random House Inc

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• There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Soulmate, Unconditional Love, Special

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• Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Two, Talking

  "The Books of Magic. Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1990 - 1991.

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• My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

  GG Allin

  Demon, Has Beens

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• Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

  Peter McWilliams

  Economic, Individual, Capitalism

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• God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang and similar astronomical phenomena, are wholly compatible with this view.

  Henry Margenau

  Discovery, Views, Atheism

  Henry Margenau, Roy Abraham Varghese (1992). “Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, God, and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens”, p.62, Open Court Publishing

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• The libertarian good society lies... in the maximum dispersion of property compatible with effective production or, as process, in progressive reconciliation of conflicts between equality and efficiency. Such process involves increasing dispersion both of wealth among persons and families and of proximate productional control among enterprises or firms.

  Henry Calvert Simons

  Wisdom, Lying, Politics

  Henry Calvert Simons (1948). “Economic Policy for a Free Society”

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• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  Ken MacLeod

  Falling In Love, Personality, Loved Ones

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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• Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Exercise, Rights, Law

  "Between Facts and Norms". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1992.

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• In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

  Warren Farrell

  Odds, Quality, Heritage

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Exercise, Men, Liberty

  "Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed" by Herbert Spencer, (Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 3), 1851.

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• Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is the mother of order; but, as a matter of definition, liberty is not order nor is Anarchism co-operation. I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mother, Order, Liberty

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

  Henry Clay

  Government, Atheism, Liberty

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.223

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