"The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty."

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Source : Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE, Henry HUNTER (D.D.) (1830*). “Studies of Nature, translated from the French, ... Carefully abridged, with a copious index, by L. T. Rede”, p.489

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#Christian Quotes #Women Quotes #Order Quotes

“We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 04, 2015
“Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God”
“Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.”
“I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.”

Source : Peter Carey (2011). “True History of the Kelly Gang”, p.80, Faber & Faber
“Your brain is not formed when you're born, you have to build your brain.”

Source : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 4, 2016.
“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”
“My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz bands and the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie - although I really liked show tunes from those big musicals as well. I've always kept my ears open, as it were, when it comes to music. It doesn't matter to me what type of music it is. If I like it, I'll listen to it.”
“I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.”

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