#promising

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#effecting #functions #life #many #our

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. ↗

— Mary Astell

#honour #ill #love #neither #nor

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happy #happy childhood #life #many #promising

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. ↗

— Karel Capek

#cognition #creating #even #fighting #method

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #been #debates #difference #explosive

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want. ↗

— Chris Christie

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