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«Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.»
Author: George Gilder
| Keywords:
beleaguer, Beleaguered, confused, families, liberation, masculinity, panacea, politically, sexuality, sustained, The Movement, uncertain, unpromising
«There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families»
«We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.»
«Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?»
Author: Steven Wright
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
babies, Baby and I, bizarre, came, coincidence, coincidences, deathbed, deathbeds, eighties, eighty, families, hospital, later, lay, lay away, lay in, looked, One Family, one of them, The Hospital, took, to each other
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
air, alms, animals, argue, asks, church, church school, concerning, despise, devote, dismiss, dismissed, dismisses, dismissing, every year, examine, families, family man, freely, give off, hat, income, indulgence, indulgences, insults, mothers, mother church, mother Earth, One Family, open air, Open Season, persons, re-examine, riches, school, school year, season, stand up, stupid person, take off, The Re, tyrants, uneducated, uneducated person, unknown
«What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?»
Author: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
| Keywords:
families, My Generation, pane, panes, raindrop, raindrops, The Children
«Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
families, poorly, repress, repressed, repressing, sexuality, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling
«What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. - letter to his wife, 1864»
Author: Robert E. Lee
| Keywords:
cruel, devastate, devastated, devastating, fair, families, god of war, granted, joys, letter, Mar, neighbors, purest, separate, war god
«Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they never forsake them either at the beginning, the middle or the end.»
«War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
afflict, afflicting, destroys, families, Great Plague, Great War, humanity, plague, Plague The, plaguing, preferable, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, States, state of war, to it
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