"A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying."

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Source : Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

Elsie Clews Parsons

#Divorce Quotes #Expression Quotes #Personality Quotes

“What a sad thing men are. Canâ€™t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Canâ€™t build something up without tearing it down.”
“Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.”
“Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.”

Source : “Patti Stanger Plays Matchmaker for Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Jennifer Lawrence” by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. January 19, 2013.
“The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass where they can be eaten by a cow. The ingested fluke then lays eggs in the cow gut. Eventually, the eggs exit the cow, and hungry snails eat the dung (and fluke eggs). The fluke enters the snail's digestive gland and gets excreted in sticky slime full of a seething mass of flukes to be drunk by ants as a source of moisture.”

Source : "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.
“Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Authentic faith cannot help but act.”
“Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now,”
“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.”

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