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«[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!»
«Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
| Keywords:
antithetical, clause, confession, due process, due process clause, embodied, fairness, involuntary, mentally ill
«Wonder is involuntary praise»
«Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
educated, enlightened, enlightening, erection, erections, hideous, holy, holy man, involuntary, in fact, segregate, segregated
«SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.The devil casting a seine of lace,(With precious stones 'twas weighted) Drew it into the landing place And its contents calculated.All souls of women were in that sack -- A draft miraculous, precious! But ere he could throw it across his back They'd all escaped through the meshes. --Baruch de Loppis»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
All Souls, Baruch, coarse, contents, cut across, draft, Drew, effecting, involuntary, lace, landing place, mesh, miraculous, net, precious stones, sack, seine, singularly, taken with, weighted
«Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
accepting, A level, involuntary, No Control, voluntarily
«Women have often more of what is called good sense then men. They have fewer pretensions; are less implicated in theories; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind, and, therefore, more truly and naturally.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
implicate, implicated, involuntary, sense impression, theories
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