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Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.


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CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can'...
OTIS Y. CHANDLER As we clean up and restore these homes, it would lessen the involvement necessary by the Camden Poli...
REV OTIS SCOTT Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.
DR. J. OTIS YODER Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom...
DR. J. OTIS YODER How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land b...
DR. J. OTIS YODER