Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.


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DEBI THOMAS
Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS
#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS
Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN
The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS
I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL
My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
THOMAS TRAHERNE
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a...
THOMAS SZASZ
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working unde...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the stre...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that whereve...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been sta...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest mode...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
God who gave us life gave us liberty. 1 Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristoc...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our house...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn fro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON