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“To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.” quote by Ayn Rand — Download Open image

“To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent over, holding his hand, not raising it from his knee, and she pressed her lips to his hand. Her hat fell off, he saw the blond head at his knees, he felt her mouth kissing his…

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic…

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Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

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My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their…

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The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of…

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Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

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If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.

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There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything,…

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