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"Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results."

"My mother was a Christian reformer. She hated the use of guilt and coercion when evangelizing. She felt that people should come to religion because of love, not out of fear. My father, on the other ha…"

"We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master. The governess is to have every one of God's gifts; sh…"

"By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97."

"As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula."

"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

"What is the impact on our children of this international “Sisterhood is Victimhood” bonding?"

"It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children i…"

"He’s had a lot of practice helping families suffering from experiences that are simultaneously mundane and far more horrifying than anything in a movie: deaths from cancer and dementia, the loss of ba…"

"For Mary there were many struggles ahead as she lived out the consequences of the 'yes' she had given to the Lord. Simeon prophesied that a sword would pierce her heart. When Jesus was twelve she expe…"

"Only persons professing the Anglican religion may fill civil and military posts. King George I abandoned the Lutheran religion and embraced the Anglican before ascending the throne, and the present re…"

"In the cavalry sons of industrialists who have got rich quickly are pushing their way in and are ruining its simple customs."

"MY dearest friend — White or some of my friends or the public papers by this time may have informed you of the terrible calamities that have fallen on our family. I will only give you the outlines. My…"

"More than a traveler, I’m a displacer. In other words, I’m a person who is constantly meditating on what it means not to arrive at a place, but to be on my way somewhere else."

"he generation of the Founding Fathers, who certainly knew the story of Noah and his sons, nonetheless believed in the equality of the races."

"All that is required to render tho efforts of railroad companies in every respect equal to that of individuals, is a rigid system of personal accountability through every grade of service."

"To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience."

"Reforming California's Prisons: An Interview With Jackie Speier, Mother Jones, July 7, 2005"

"America tried to import the two fundamentals of the Swedish welfare state—high welfare payments and an end to social disapproval of illegitimacy—beginning about 1961. In parts of the U.S., such as hea…"

"Us Christians are very much concerned with children. Jesus said, let the small children come to me. I can't understand that Muhammad could have said the same. In the case that he could have said the s…"