Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last. - Diana Gabaldon

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the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

Diana Gabaldon

Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.

Firsts, Lasts, Said, Softly, Swear

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Could I but lay my head in your lap, lass. Feel your hand on me, and sleep wi' the scent of you in my bed. Christ, Sassenach. I need ye.

Bed, Hand, Hands, Lap, Sleep

Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.

Fascinating, Know, Scholar, Song, Sound, Thrush

Home is the place where they have to take you in

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But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Long, Man, Men, Sky, Story, Two

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.

Autumn, Beautiful, Blue, Drown, Fall, Like

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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

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John Shelby Spong

We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

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Alvin Lustig

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

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I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

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