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“The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.”

Father Easy Loss Responsibility Roles Fantasy Hero Husband Privilege Access Surrender Traditional Primaries Appeals Yield Fulfilling Exclusive Providers Husband And Father

Author:Faye J Crosby

“And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.”

Long Ends Government Loss Imagine Subjects Produce Privilege Profit Valuable Imagine That Swindling

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Seems Social Loss Grief Economic Losing Threat Privilege Following Conviction Lovely Logical Fairness Incapable Sequence Premises Alarms Lucidity

Author:Storm Jameson

“As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.”

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.”

Ifs Law Loss Failing Possibility Highest Harmony Aim Workers Privilege Rise Above Helpers Co Worker

Book:Simplified Scientific Astrology

Source: Simplified Scientific Astrology

“[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.”

Stars Loss Sky Privilege Storm Disaster Confusion Grass Salt Whirlwind Marshes Stars In The Sky Steeples

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“I was sitting in this small coffee shop a couple days ago and I saw this old man sitting at a table across from me. He looked so lonely, so sad. I was too, but it suddenly occurred to me that some people go through their whole lives never being loved or loving as deeply as I love you. There's always going to be the chance that I could lose you in this lifetime. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided that I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I've been given in having you at all. Ch. 32”

“Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.”

Challenges Loss Mankind Danger Willing Mass Majority Privilege Minorities Apathy

Author:Richard Crossman

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.”

Made Choices Loss Responsibility Mines Consequence Blame Privilege

Book:A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings