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We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's… — Pat Barker
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty… — Francis Chan
Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued. — Frank Delaney
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the… — Robert J. Sawyer
Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly. "Janine Hathaway?" Tatiana's eyebrows rose nearly to her hairline. "I'm sure she has other… — Richelle Mead
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to… — Sigmund Freud
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them… — Winston Churchill
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any… — Ayn Rand
You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard. — J R Ward
Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends… — Harold S. Kushner
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. — Oscar Wilde
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for… — Mary Doria Russell
Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin.… — Ilona Andrews
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil,… — Ayn Rand
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a… — China Mieville
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said. — Anna Godbersen
Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you.… — Isaac Watts
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser… — Mitch Albom
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his… — Nathaniel Branden
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level… — Judith Lewis Herman
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired… — Ted Chiang
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf

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