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#paternal

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Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.


Peter R. Grant


#females #lines #mating #paternal #song

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.


Theodor Herzl


#brings #denied #every #except #grateful

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.


Tony Danza


#better #deal #did #felt #got

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.


Simon Newcomb


#four #grandfather #house #i #little

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.


Alexander Pope


#air #bound #breathe #care #content

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.


Thomas W. Higginson


#birth #broken #drink #eat #galling

I (John Stone) have never had any great desire to abolish poverty or save fallen women; I am, and always have been, deeply suspicious of those who wish to do these things. They normally cause more harm than good and, in my experience, their desire for power, to control others, is very much greater than that of any businessman. p 455 Stone's Fall


Iain Pears


#experience

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.


Jane Jacobs


#change






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