"Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity."

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Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.21, Open Road Media

Jane Rule

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“When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.”
“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”
“I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.”
“An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.”

Source : Alfred Edersheim (1874). “The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ”, p.80
“"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"”
“[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.”

Source : Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA
“Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.”
“They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.”

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