"Convention is another name for the habits of society."

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Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

Rosamond Lehmann

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“My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”
“Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.”

Source : J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.249, InterVarsity Press
“Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition-not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.”
“Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyoneâ€™s privacy, to destroy someoneâ€™s sense of self.”
“The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.”
“If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.”
“I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so”
“All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.”

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