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In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

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Quote:- In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things (that do not require all their gifts and ability) for others and never anything for themselves. Society and husbands praise them for it (when they get too miserable or have nervous breakdowns) though always a little perplexedly and half-heartedly and just to be consoling. The poor wives are reminded that that is just why wives are so splendid -- because they are so unselfish and self-sacrificing and that is the wonderful thing about them! But inwardly women know that something is wrong. They sense that if you are always doing something for others, like a servant or nurse, and never anything for yourself, you cannot do others any good. You make them physically more comfortable. But you cannot affect them spiritually in any way at all. For to teach, encourage, cheer up, console, amuse, stimulate or advise a husband or children or friends, you have to be something yourself. [...]"If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say; 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.
Author:- Brenda Ueland
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.
Author:- Jim Al-Khalili
Category:- science
Quote:- In fact, if one reads attentively what Sri Aurobindo has written, all that he has written, one would have the answer to every question. Questions and Answers 1957-1958
Author:- The Mother
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- In fact, none of the papers published in the JME over the entire course of its life as a journal has ever proposed a detailed model by which a complex biochemical system might have been produced in a gradual, step-by-step Darwinian fashion. Although many scientists ask how sequences can change or how chemicals necessary for life might be produced in the absence of cells, no one has ever asked in the pages of JME such questions as the following: How did the photosynthetic reaction center develop? How did intramolecular transport start? . . . The very fact that none of these problems is even addressed, let alone solved, is a very strong indication that Darwinism is an inadequate framework for understanding the origin of complex biochemical systems. Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Author:- Michael J. Behe
Category:- science
Quote:- In fact, those who want to learn about wisdom must of necessity draw on the tradition of the fairly remote past. For centuries almost everyone has been silent on the subject. Philosophers, of whom some "love of wisdom" might be expected, have increasingly turned to the critical examination of knowledge, and are largely engaged in active disparagement of all that once passed of "wisdom." Nor has the effect of scientific and technical progress been any more propitious. What, indeed, could be more "unscientific" than the pursuit of wisdom-with its concern for the meaning of life, with its search for ends, purposes and values worthy of being pursued, with its desire to penetrate beyond the appearance of things to their true reality? Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra
Author:- Edward Conze
Category:- science
Quote:- In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.
Author:- Jane Yolen
Category:- poetry
Quote:- In following our dreams, we are committing our present time and resources to fulfill a future vision.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,time
Quote:- In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Author:- Jean-Paul Sartre
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.
Author:- Mark Warner
Category:- science
Quote:- In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face. A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author:- Bill Bryson
Category:- science
Quote:- In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and l’avenir [the ‘to come]. The future is that which – tomorrow, later, next century – will be. There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l’avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.
Author:- Jacques Derrida
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships. Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
Author:- Carolyn Custis James
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- In giving up, we incur a change of mindset and settle for lesser accomplishments.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- time,hope,motivational
Quote:- In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Author:- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Category:- science
Quote:- In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. Killosophy
Author:- Criss Jami
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle. Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism
Author:- Deepak Chopra
Category:- science
Quote:- In good times and bad, it’s wisdom to know that neither lasts forever. The Unused Path: Skills for living an authentic life
Author:- Vincent H. O'Neil
Category:- time
Quote:- In Hamilton's The Universe Wreckers... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from The Drums of Tapajos that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from The Black Star Passes and other stories by John W. Campbell that I first heard of relativity.The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresistible. It was science fiction that made me want to be a scientist strongly enough to eventually make me one.That is not to say that science fiction stories can be completely trusted as a source of specific knowledge... However, the misguidings of science fiction can be unlearned. Sometimes the unlearning process is not easy, but it is a low price to pay for the gift of fascination over science. Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s
Author:- Isaac Asimov
Category:- science
Quote:- In her anniversary card, Daisy wrote: If they say we don't exist, that they can't see us anywhere except rotten corners, in perverse bodies, how come I can see you and hold you and you're holy; how come I can love you and home you and you're there, in flesh, in my mind, in my blood; how come I keep waking up in this love and feel rested? What else to do now then, when a love like this finds you? What else but praise? What else but dance? Vagabonds!
Author:- Eloghosa Osunde
Category:- Love