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«Spiritual and religious traditions, when shaped by the feminine principle, affirm the cyclical phrases of our lives and the wisdom each phase brings, the sacredness of our bodies and the body of the Earth»
Author: Patrick Wynne
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Traditions,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
affirm, cyclical, phrases, sacredness, shaped, Traditions
«The artist has one function-to affirm and glorify life.»
«Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affectionate, affirm, display, extraordinarily, In the Garden, occupations, perversities, perversity, suave, supple
«Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: / From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; / Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.»
«RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, Afro-American, Afro, Caucasian, Caucasians, Mongolian, razor
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, Affirmed, affirming, Christendom, confused, deluge, deluges, distinction, doctrine, doctrines, entail, entailed, entailing, foreordination, gore, gored, gores, implication, ink, occur, occurrence, occurrences, perdition, predestination, programme, programmed, reverent, spared, The Deluge, with that
«Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, affirming, idealist, persist, persist in, predestined
«The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
affirm, enthusiast, enthusiasts, passionate, preferred
«I have supposed the black man, in his present state, might not be in body and mind equal to the white man; but it would be hazardous to affirm that, equally cultivated for a few generations, he would not become so»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
affirm, cultivated, equal to, hazardous, The Black, white man
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