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“Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.”

Giving Persons Values Loses Half Moral Relation Charity Giver Moral Values

Book:The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.”

Feels Humans Has Beens Lost Secret Mistake Half Forever Relation Chiefs Crowns Compensation Blessedness

Book:Romola: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Romola: Top Novelist Focus

“there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.”

Way Humans Two Humanity Force Half Models Female Relation Threat Males Partnership Hierarchy Variation Females And Males

Book:The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Source: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

“I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”

Thinking Humans Made Self Values Half Moral Rights Progress Century Losing Concern Sight Relation Human Rights Self Respect 20th Century Respecting Others Concern For Others

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”

Two Whole Half Relationship Healthy Relation Love Relationship Healthy Relationship Love And Relationship Relationships And Life Celebrity Relationship Perfect Relationship Old Relationship

Author:Patricia L. Fry

“There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.”

Has Beens Made Difficult Half Century Policy Relation Britain Foreign Policy Great Britain

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”

Men Humans Whole Together Form Humanity Existence Half Subjects Bears Couple Relation Independent Slavery Refuse Deny Genuine Hypocrisy Significance Division Abolish

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.”

“To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.”

People Wisdom Half Nice Relation Management Islamic Questioning Arrangements Livelihood

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib