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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

"The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class in Mapping the Nation" by Ernest Gellner,

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.135, Open Road Media