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«Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.»
Author: Ann Oakley
(Sociologist)
| Keywords:
amazing, calmer, exploit, exploited, exploiting, exploits, grace, humane, injure, intimacies, intimacy, kinder, myriad, nevertheless, promising, quieter, security, softer, sublime, subtle, subtler, The Exploited, unequalled
«Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven»
Author: Charles Williams
| About:
Forgiveness
| Keywords:
broken-down, forgiven, Parties, party, promising
«Peter Utley, the newspaper's obituary editor cheerfully checked with Primrose Palmer, his assistant, on the day's soul traffic. The late archbishop from New Zealand sounded promising, it was agreed, but then again it was lunch time, and who knew what had been happening in some now-ending life.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
| Keywords:
archbishop, Archbishop of, assistant, assistants, cheerfully, Palmer, primrose, primroses, promising, sounded, traffic
«They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.»
«What is revolutionary about the Declaration of Independence, then, is not that a particular group of Americans declared their independence under particular circumstances but that they did so by appealing to - and promising to base their particular go»
«Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other»
«Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
immediate, inclination, promising, stimulate, techniques, The Natural, threatened
«Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
promising
«Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.»
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