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«It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.»
Author: Alan Keyes
| Keywords:
agenda, agendas, areas, concept, destroying, faced, homosexual, military, radical, The Military, utterly
«[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
absorb, allows, concept, connected, domains, elusive, insightful, relate, sharpness
«I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.»
«Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Death and dying,
Information
| Keywords:
carefully, concept, died young, dying, effective, explain, informed, threatening
«. . . full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.»
Author: Wilhelm Reich
(Psychologist)
| Keywords:
center, concept, confirms, deadly, dogmas, in other words, masses, mystical, regulation, regulations, sexual, sexuality, The Center, The Masses
«An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
| About:
Personality,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
affects, aspect, behavior, concept, core, Human behavior, image, personality, preparation, self image, The Core
«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bodily, concept, echo, everlasting, fades, fame, Great Spirit, haunting, Hearts of, ineffable, leave behind, life eternal, loveliness, magically, mignonette, passed, pervade, pervaded, pervades, rare, real name, real presence, recondite, splendor, splendors, The Haunted, The Haunting, The Sound, touching, vague, vaguer, warmly
«God is a concept by which we measure our pain»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
concept, measure
«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, concept, dislocate, exacerbate, exacerbated, exaggeration, exaggerations, forces, schematize, speaking, undertake, undertook
«It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.»
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