"The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use."

-- Emily James Smith Putnam

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“That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
“I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.”
“I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.”
“Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.”
“I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny two-seater plane soaring gracefully through the sky. Our great airlines awe me. Yet I know they were not produced in a day or a decade.”
“With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.”
“The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.”
“When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.”

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