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«I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.»
Author: David Cronenberg
| Keywords:
betrayal, betrayals, cantankerous, colonialism, colonies, colony, detach, dominate, mother country, partner, perceived, separation, the colonies, The First Evil, treacherous
«Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.»
«The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
just now, mother country, The Civil War, twentieth century
«And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? / Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? / And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? / And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.»
Author: Bible
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carpenter, insomuch, Joses, judas, mother country, sister Mary, synagogue, This Man
«And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.»
«'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Country,
Speech
| Keywords:
desperate, mother country, My Country, patriot, Right or Wrong, sober
«If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Abortion,
Love,
Violence
| Keywords:
abortion, abortions, accepts, country, mother country, teaching, violence
«You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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across the country, crawl, fall out, mother country, under fire, womb
«Only dedicated mothers can offer to the nation children who will strive for a great future for the country.»
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