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The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female… — Peter Tatchell
Thinking is movement confined to the brain — Arvid Carlsson
We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime,… — Bronagh Gallagher
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up… — Edwin A. Abbott
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the… — William John Wills
Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all. — Lauren Slater
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. — Daniel Harvey Hill
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support… — William Kingdon Clifford
Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any hint that they will accept… — Leila Khaled
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of… — James Joseph Sylvester
Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where… — Edsger Dijkstra
Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape… — Robert Svoboda
Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts… — Jack H. Goaslind
In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine… — Unknown Author
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown… — Anne Fadiman
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the… — Charles Scott Sherrington
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in… — Charles Evans Hughes
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see… — Michel de Montaigne
These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for… — Tony Evans
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure… — Alexander Herzen
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. — Nicolas Bentley
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence,… — Satish Kumar

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