In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typica...lly had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered for... a head cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ... I had heard of you by t...he hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousa...nd yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he canceled the d...ebts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed wi...th a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in hi...m.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, w...hich will not be taken away from her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »