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Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.

When I look upon seamen men of science and philosophers man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

When men attempt bold gestures generally it's considered romantic. When women do it it's often considered desperate or psycho.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

The bill would ban human cloning and any attempts at human cloning for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Today it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love feels no burden thinks nothing of trouble attempts what is above its strength pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible.

When I hear somebody sigh 'Life is hard ' I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey always on an involuntary basis and always attempting a legal argument for release.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

In the transmission of human culture people always attempt to replicate to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning not DNA.