"Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 465. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

William Mackergo Taylor

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“The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.”
“I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.”
“The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”
“I mean, you've got to protect human health beyond everything, and so we think eliminating shared-use antibiotics is the right way to go.”
“Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.”

Source : Patricia Hill Collins (1998). “Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice”, p.16, U of Minnesota Press
“It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.”
“Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.”
“There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.”

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