"There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh."

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Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

Christine de Pizan

#Lying Quotes #Feet Quotes #Ribs Quotes

“I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.”

Source : "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.
“Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.”
“If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.”
“There is no doubt that the adsence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German army.”
“It's so much easier just to eat and work out than not eat and work out like crazy.”
“I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.”
“I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.”
“God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.”

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