#kin

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anxiety #away #certainly #children #commonly

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#business #given #headaches #king #me

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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