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“Love is a jeering mime.”
Source : Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
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“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.”
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“The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.”
Source : JOHN B. JERVIS (1872). “A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS”, p.3
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“Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.”
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“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”
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“Love is the great conqueror of lust.”
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“As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.”
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“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
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“Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.”
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“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.191, Verso
