![Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.](images/quote-images-gq/t/tuchman-woman-in-the-14th-century-was-the-church39s.webp)
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
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Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
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