“One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.” PeopleFacesSocialJusticeIssuesRightsParticularBirthConcernSocial JusticeDivorceCivil RightsAbortionBirth ControlRemarriage Author:William P. Leahy
“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.” MenChristianCultureParticularBirthBehaviorWorshipShoesJewHatsRemoveEquipmentPlaces Of Worship Book:MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION
“Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.” GivingKindLittlesWholeBigsSeemsLife IsArtistNextMillionsPiecesCreationParticularBirthGive MeSurpriseInnocentNew ThingsLiving ThingsRefreshing Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.” MenDoeHas BeensDonePhilosophyMomentsHappensBornLevelsClassMagicParticularBirthConceptsUniversalCriminalsFaculty Book:The Straight Mind: And Other Essays Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
“It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.” NeedsOrderViewsGenerationsParticularBirthLateReflectionConception Author:Max Frisch
“Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.” ThinkingEndsRolesParticularBirthOur FamilyPersona Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth” PeopleMenHumansSufferingParentMemoriesHuman BeingsForgetPowerfulPowerParticularBirthCertaintyDelusionTraitsPsychoticInfamyNo MemoryPowerful Man Author:Stephen Vizinczey