#gains

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#affecting #against #birth #birth control #carries

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options. ↗

— Mark Morris

#am #array #biology #both #certain

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#every #fathers #friends #generation #grandfathers

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #hands #himself

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#career #got #had #highlights #i

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me. ↗

— Henry Villard

#contact #got #had #him #i

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. ↗

— Larry Wall

#architecture #came #coming #computer #computer science

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#gains #loses #misses #more #nonsense

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#any #constitution #crown #due #hope