Wedding Party Quotes

• What I do know is that drones are a modern weapon. When used effectively, when taking out ISIS or terrorist leaders, that's pretty impressive. When bombing wedding parties of innocent people and killing dozens of them, that is, needless to say, not effective and enormously counterproductive. So whatever the mechanism, whoever is in control of that policy, it has to be refined so that we are killing the people we want to kill and not innocent collateral damage.

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  Bernie Sanders

  Party   Isis   People  

  Interview with the Daily News Editorial Board, www.nydailynews.com. April 1, 2016.

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• A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

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  Israel Shenker

  Religious   Husband   Party  

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.

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  Robert Aris Willmott

  Party   Grief   Sadness  

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

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  Kabir

  Party   Who Cares   Lovers  

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• A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party

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  Nujood Ali

  Party   Divorce   Wedding Party  

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books

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