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“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”

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Jean Racine, born on December 22, 1639 and died on April 21, 1699, was a prominent French dramatist. Known for his tragic plays, he is considered one of the greatest representatives of classical French drama. more

“If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.”

Ifs Men Should Mind Matter Law Evil Belief Causes Forever Produce Divine Disease Opposites Sick Illness Be Good Mortals Sickness Remedy Unreal Decree Transgression

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.”

“It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.”

Children Mankind Promise God's Presence

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.”

Children Courage Virtue Lovely Ribs

Author:James M. Barrie

“The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.”

Wife Dear My Wife Jealousy Widows

Author:Sacha Guitry

“Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.”

Ifs Men May Art Liberty Opinion Virtue Limits All Things Orthodoxy

Author:Arturo Toscanini

“[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.”

Way Self Seems Ought Citizens Diets Good Times Having A Good Time Fiber Deodorant

Author:Jan Morris

“We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?”

Ifs Long War Poor Finals Complicated Annihilation

Author:Michael Herr

“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”

“The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.”

Wells War Time Military

Book:Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

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