"The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage."

-- Kylie Tennant

#Religious Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Race Quotes

“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”

Source : Trudi Canavan (2009). “The Novice: The Black Magician Trilogy”, p.6, Zondervan
“A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that's not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition.”
“Love just happens, you know.”
“A fish does not swim it is SWUM. A bird does not FLY it is flown.”
“People go to car races to watch the crashes.”
“In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.”
“The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.”

Source : "The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum" by George Walden, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2010.
“If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.”

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