#those

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#civilizations #defined #did #exceptions #few

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#better #cover #david #dumb #feel

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#bahamas #casinos #fleming #full #hate

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#call #god #heart #him #kinds

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#discovered #found #more #others #people

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#come #discovered #generally #mind #others

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#cool #i #really #things #those

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. ↗

— Walter Pater

#comes #frankly #give #highest #highest quality