Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.
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Related .taste of winning is best, when nobody believes anymore.. KOVO Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggl... KAREN MARIE MONING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm mad - I feel it for the seniors. This feeling, you don't want to feel like this anymore. RAY RICE It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigran... ERIC HOFFER Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it OGDEN NASH It takes more to make a scandal in Hollywood than Jared Paul Stern . Hollywood has looser ethical gu... MICKEY KAUS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a deci... JOHN STUART MILL life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided... JOHN STUART MILL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON This favoritism, while poorly understood, seems to be innate and cross-cultural. Studies suggest tha... INGRID OLSON The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ... ERIC HOFFER It was a ticking bomb, a house of cards ready to fall, and finally Peter couldn't pay Paul anymore. TONY KAVANAGH There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even kn... HEATHER DAY GILBERT No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; ... PROTAGORAS Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life. D.H. LAWRENCE Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD Everyone seems to be feeling that great change is in the offing, but nobody knows what it's going to... LARRY HARVEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This... DENISE BROWN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spu... JOHN LOCKE Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spu... JOHN LOCKE Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil. CORNELIA FUNKE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD We immediately gelled and we both were hearing things together and feeling the beat together. We bot... DAVE BRUBECK We immediately gelled and we both were hearing things together and feeling the beat together, ... We... DAVE BRUBECK Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and... NORA ROBERTS Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold ... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult... JOHN CONNOLLY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Knowledge can always be used for good and evil, but to deny it altogether is the ultimate sin DANIELLE TORGERSEN Good to evil seems evil RAY BRADBURY No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; ... PROTAGORAS Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of r... RICHARD DAWKINS You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS It seems to me that it's a fairly narrow market that's going to pay for the privilege of reading col... GLENN REYNOLDS Evolution is a crazy theory; he who believes in it is equally mad. MITTA XININDLU Paul would be laughing with extras and saying, 'Yes, and then we could do that,' and, 'Let's try thi... AIDAN QUINN Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do gr... MICHAEL MOORCOCK The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. JOHNNY DEPP If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL We've robbed Peter to pay Paul, and they're both broke. JOE WEAVER To the knights of faith nobody believes. DEJAN STOJANOVIC If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like... CARLTON CUSE Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both.... SIMONE WEIL The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS [He appreciated its] compounded vulgarity, ... It had that Peter Finch in 'Network,' 'I'm mad as hel... GEORGE CARLIN Nobody goes to that place anymore. It's too crowded. YOGI BERRA In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL No human creature can give orders to love. GEORGE SAND I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a p... NATASHA LYONNE A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Good and evil are the key elements that make a human. ROSA M. BETANCES I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. CHARLES DICKENS I think he enjoyed the experience as much as I did and it was fun to have him out there, a relaxed f... JAY SNYDER There's nobody on the floor who knows me and what I'm thinking better than the two of them, whether ... KATE SOUTHCOTT The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'l... ROBERT ANTON WILSON She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth... AGATHA CHRISTIE I didn't get to go to the Rose Bowl. But this was the next best thing, and it was great to see all t... DAVID MCCARTHY You know that feeling that we had last year was a very bad feeling. And nobody wanted to feel like t... JAMES FARRIOR I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peac... JANEANE GAROFALO I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well w... C.S. LEWIS He's fun. He keeps me laughing, and it seems like he's going to keep everyone entertained this year,... ANGIE WATSON Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it. SOURCE UNKNOWN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL The biggest thing about Paul is that he never seems to get tired. JEFF WILSON Both doctors and patients are waiting for the other person to raise the subject and as a result nobo... EDWARD HOOK I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE It takes good movies and a good theater experience to bring people out. Both are happening now. JOHN FITHIAN Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER More a person could actually feel and think, less s/he would be seen getting attracted towards the m... ANUJ SOMANY
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