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Source: Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in Original Documents

“The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.”

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.”

Men May Has Beens Stills Today School Given Gone Honor Ethics Professors Graduates Elites 1960s Scholarship Reserved Yale Graduate School Wasps

Author:Camille Paglia

“Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.”

May Matter Age Literature Given Religious Exercise Taste Judgment Aesthetic Sophisticated

Author:Lionel Trilling

“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”

Knows Men World May Made Earth Faces Given Sports Sin Five Sea Sky Fairs Blind Neighbor Wit Phrases Folly Woe Dwelling Decree Dwelling Place

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.”

May Facts Given Power Exercise Abstract

Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.”

Knows Needs May Use Given Saved

Book:The Ladder of Perfection

Source: The Ladder of Perfection

“The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.”

Men May Evil Given Too Much Habit Late Clock Beloved Forty Be A Man Alarms Treacherous Alarm Clocks

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?”

Men May Done Universe Given Behinds Watches He Man Theory Wall Goes On Concepts Unity Glasses Strikes Thick Quantum Participation Mechanic Observers Participants Quantum Mechanics

Author:John Archibald Wheeler

“Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.”

Men Way May Art Ends Given Practice Creation Balance Achievement Harmony Contrary Surround Dominant Signals Fulfilment

Author:Piet Mondrian

“In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.”

May Purpose Courses Given University Brilliant Be You Promotion

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

May Has Beens Said Seems Age Form Found Individual Given Religious Numbers Expression Industry Periods Evidence Concern Being True Substitutes Factories Gothic Cathedrals

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals may be able to provide for themselves and their families but also that the goods which the Creator destined for the entire family of mankind may through this institution truly serve this purpose.”

Men May Able Purpose Politics Individual Given Economy Mankind Institutions Creator Liberalism Goods Ownership Destined

Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?”

Source: The Essays of George Eliot

“Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.”

May Reason Use Light Christian Given Sin Animal Destiny Hell Fire Atheism Higher Dare Positive Atheism Homo Sapiens

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.”

Men May Home Culture Literature Given Half Christianity Taken Our Lives Atheism Finals Positive Atheism Sexuality Naked Granted Necks Dead Man Final Words

Author:Marilyn Manson

“May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.”

Wells May Has Beens Facts Mother Father Names Given Heaven Responsibility Lord Evidence Magnificent Everlasting Father In Heaven

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]”

Thinking May Given Return Benefits Hatred Thanks Acceptable Receiver Posse

Author:Tacitus

“Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]”

Men May Has Beens Character Given Judging Guides Conjecture Character Of A Man Physiognomy

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.”

Way May Given Fields Truth Is Bravery Loyalty Closets

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.”

May Earth Given Heaven Grief Sorrow Prove Mortals Immortality Remove

Book:The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett

Source: The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett

“Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.”

Thinking May Given Return Benefits Hatred Thanks Acceptable Receiver

Author:Bill Vaughan

“If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.”

Ifs World Should Mind May Given Loss Sin Anxiety Add Ill Details Complaining Merit Spares Committees Treasury Grievance Mirth Annoyance Robbing Provocation Good Humor Ill Health

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.”

May States Seems Given United United States Economy Diversity Size Significant Locals Severe Unlikely Distortion Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.”

Men May Has Beens Character Age Given Opinion Century Degrees Men And Women Expected Educated Manners Streams Popular Opinion Vindication

Book:Vindication of the Rights of Women

Source: Vindication of the Rights of Women

“The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.”

Giving May Art Form Purpose Given Pleasure Offers Art Is Take Time Sensibility Purpose Of Art

Author:Susan Sontag

“One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.”

People May Reason Whole Energy Given Sound Prove Capacity Sexuality Arguing Nuclear Ecstasy Inaccessible Scruples Nuclear Energy Amenable

Author:Susan Sontag

“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.”

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