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«Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.»
«In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.»
«As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost»
«At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.»
Author: Vera Brittain (Mary)
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Writer)
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Keywords:
assassinations,
class war,
first period,
half-century,
inhibit,
inhibited,
inhibits,
paradoxically,
second class,
second period,
strangely
«It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.»
«But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.»
«I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Logician,
Mathematician,
Novelist,
Photographer)
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About:
Prayer
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Keywords:
answered,
Evening Prayer,
evident,
Father,
fathering,
heavenly,
Heavenly Father,
prayers,
refused,
strangely
«It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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Keywords:
acknowledged,
beatnik,
capitalist,
convention,
fringe,
fringed,
fringes,
fringe benefit,
herds,
hippie,
hippies,
in for,
marketing,
obedient,
obsolescence,
strangely
«I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Education,
Kindness,
Learning,
Silence,
Tolerance
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Keywords:
intolerant,
intolerant of,
kindness,
learned,
silence,
strangely,
talkative,
teachers,
these,
tolerance,
ungrateful,
unkind,
unkindest
«How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.»