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• If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Pain, Garden, Self

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• When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Teaching, Mind

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Warning, World

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia 7-in-1 Bundle with Bonus Book, Boxen”, p.98, HarperCollins UK

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• The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Boredom

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• The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the model for Adam and Eve. For all couples in love, there comes a moment when a man gazes at a woman with the very same kind of realization. It is an infinite helix, the dance of two souls resonating, like the twist of DNA, like the vast universe.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Couple, Men, Thinking

  Banana Yoshimoto, Ann Sherif (1996). “Lizard”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

  Ouida

  Father, Wish, Coward

  Ouida (1890*). “Wanda. Ariadne. The general's match-making”

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• She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.484, Macmillan

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• You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  House, Puppy, Wonder

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.143, Random House

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• Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

  Ann Voskamp

  Ungrateful, Humanity, Firsts

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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• Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude.  Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave.  Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins?  Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives.  We hunger for something more, something other.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Giving, Ungrateful

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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• Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

  Bill Hicks

  Years, People, Age

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Mind, Adam

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• Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Animal, Joy, Evolution

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• ...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Animal, Humanity, Lambs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Marta L. Werner (2005). “Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843”, p.7, American Philosophical Society

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• Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Naked, World

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

  Franz Kafka

  Pet, Paradise, Firsts

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Opportunity, Garden, Media

  1976 Christ and theMedia, introduction.

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• When it comes to the whole debate today over evolution versus creation, Jesus affirmed the early chapters of Genesis were accurate when He said, "Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4). Adam and Eve didn't come on the scene after billions of years of mutations and evolution. No. God created them all the way back in the beginning-just like Moses reported in the Book of Genesis.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Jesus, Book

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• Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.

  Brigham Young

  Daughter, Son, Goes On

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• The animal creation shall again gladden a new Paradise as they did when Adam and Eve called them by name, and carressed them and mingled in their society. The Bible everywhere indicates that the new earth will be a counterpart of the old before the fall, so we must conclude that lower animals who were created before man and have been his companions before and since the fall will be restored with him in the "new Creation"

  Ed Buckner

  Fall, Animal, Men

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• If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.

  Jon Gries

  Garden, Eden, Space

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2007.

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• We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stories, Adam, Accounts

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

  Tina Fey

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and gave life to the fallen. O abyss of humility! Adam and Eve lost themselves through gluttony, the Lord fasted and died for them, in order to give them life. They were disobedient, Christ fulfilled obedience.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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