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“there are signs to find ,understand person who is in love _ in little of sickness or in little success ,or failure ,their eyes ,and heart looks for their lovers .this is for both ,to understand dep...”
“I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. I...”
“Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.”
“Customs, morals--is there a difference?”
“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for ...”
“But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.”
“Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.”
“You gotta look backwards to go forwards.”
“The past informs the present.”
“Now, come over here so I can pat you down.""But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure."He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down."You seem to be clean,"...”
