“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.” WayChildrenHelpingTogetherNumbersAttentionWifeFailingHusbandDemandFaultsInstanceHusband And WifeConcentratingArmourHusband Wife Author:Richard Armour
“When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.” SaidMatterFailingConversationAffairInstanceDirtyNastyFilthyPolygamyJoseph Smith Author:Oliver Cowdery
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.” PeopleStatesWholeLawPoliticalNationsInterestFailingPolicyGeniusConnectionsPrejudiceIllAffectionFavorsSeparationViolentObligationOppressionInstanceRuinsTemperOppressedMistakenAnimosityProsecution Author:Benjamin Franklin
“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.” MenWantBelieveStillsPoliticalCertainPresidentAbilityWiseFailingPositionSucceedOfficeBirdFunctionInstanceMachineryManipulatePublic LifeFledglings Book:What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.” IfsNeedsShouldTryingLostNaturalHalfFailingPercentRegardRateCampaignsInstanceProportionFiftyEggsMassiveMortalityPregnancyAmbitiousRescueInfantPublic HealthImplantsInfant Mortality Author:Michael Sandel