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«Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abject, assistance, brace, braces, confront, frantic, grovel, groveled, groveling, submission
«A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.»
Author: Margaret Sanger
(Founder)
| Keywords:
certificate, certificates, degrading, desired, finer, notwithstanding, response, sensibility, sexual act, Sexual acts, submission, take place, to the contrary
«Fear may induce the show of submission; but love only can truly subjugate a haughty spirit.»
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
| Keywords:
haughty, induce, inducing, subjugate, subjugated, submission, submissions, The Show
«I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.»
Author: E. B. White
| Keywords:
accommodated, appreciatively, dictatorially, ingenious, pessimistic, skeptically, submission, viewed
«Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it»
«Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.»
«Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.»
«I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
admiring, bestow, declared, dressed, inward, powerless, submission, The Lady, tranquility
«Keep always in your mind, that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself»
«I turn you towards Divine, winning your confidence, your love, your submission, by being among you, as one of yourselves, one whom you can see, listen to, speak to, touch and treat with reverence and devotion.»
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