"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."

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Source : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.19

John Hanning Speke

#Delight Quotes #Twins Quotes #Instance Quotes

“That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.”
“I believe that when we treat homosexual people as pariahs and push them outside our communities and churches; when we blame them for who they are; when we deny them our blessing on their commitment to lifelong, faithful relationships, we make them doubt whether they are children of God, made in his image.”

Source : "Stop treating gay people as pariahs, evangelical minister tells church" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.
“A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.”
“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.”

Source : "Teach arts and sciences together". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2002.
“It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.”
“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
“Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!”
“They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.”

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