"The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden."

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Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

Wyndham Lewis

#Men Quotes #Garden Quotes #Eden Quotes

“just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ...”
“I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.157, 1st World Publishing
“Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you...”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan
“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.”
“The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.”
“If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.”

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