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• Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fall, Animal, World

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• There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.

  Hugh Nibley

  Father, Party, Independent

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• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

  Zane Grey

  Eye, Rivers, Desert

  Zane Grey (2015). “Western Classics Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and more”, p.5023, e-artnow

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• Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

  Milton Friedman

  Effort, Salary, Tariffs

  "Milton Friedman RIP" by Walter Block, mises.org. November 17, 2006.

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• When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Luxury, Term, Incoherence

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “On The Wealth of Nations: A Book that Shook the World”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Fall, Garden

  Max Lucado (2011). “Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.

  Paul P. Enns

  Men, Giving, Enemy

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• But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

  Paul Ormerod

  Philosopher, Moral, Wealth

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Lonely, Perfect, Sin

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• Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Oneness, Water, Soul

  Muhammad Iqbal (2012). “Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

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• Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Jesus

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• In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Sky, Adam And Eve

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

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• An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

  Robert South

  Athens, Paradise, Rubbish

  'Sermons' vol. 1, no. 2

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• The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

  Saadi

  Fall, Humble, Humility

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• There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

  Billy Graham

  Temptation, Firsts, Satan

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

  Paula Yates

  Apples, Innocence, Underpants

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• He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Father, Race

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.219, Ravenio Books

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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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• After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

  Harold MacMillan

  Garden, Eden, People

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• My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

  Ron Reagan

  Father, Knows

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• Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

  Leslie Bibb

  Thinking, Blue, Practice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Meaningful, Believe, Struggle

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• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  Ted Dekker

  Silly, Thinking, Air

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