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The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.


Sheila Stubbs


#doctor #intervention #life #midwifery #life

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.


Sheri S. Tepper


#curse #destiny #divine-intervention #fate #fortune

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.


P. J. O'Rourke


#government #intervention #left-wing #most #often

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.


John Quincy Adams


#imperialism #independence #isolationism #liberty #noninterventionism

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.


Criss Jami


#apologetics #christianity #christians #divine #divine-intervention

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.


Margaret Cho


#birthday party #emotionally #ever #exhausting #horrible

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.


Harold Washington


#american #american history #democracy #federal #federal government

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.


Jay Weatherill


#behaving #case #corrupt #criminal #criminality

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.


Jurgen Habermas


#among #began #discussions #europeans #found

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.


Wolfgang Hildesheimer


#another #because #believed #capability #could






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