"If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble."

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Source : Joseph Cook (1879). “Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events”

Joseph Cook

#Evil Quotes #May Quotes #Affection Quotes

“Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.”
“A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.”
“Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.”
“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.”
“I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.”

Source : FaceBook post by Larry Clark from Jul 19, 2013
“I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.”
“I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1989). “Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge”, p.187, Transaction Publishers

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