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"The wife may be divorced for ing, , , , to her husband's parents, and thieving; but all these causes are null when her parents are not alive to receive her back again. A man cannot have more than one wife, but he may take s, whose children are legally subject to the authority of the wife, as 's were to . Public opinion does not however justify the taking of a concubine except when the wife has borne no sons. In regions where the people are very poor, it is uncommon for a man to have more than one wife. A husband may beat his wife to death, and go unpunished ; but a wife who strikes her husband a single blow may be divorced, and beaten a hundred blows with the heavy bamboo. As long as a woman is childless, she serves; as soon as she becomes a mother, she begins to rule, and her dominion increases perpetually with the number of her descendants and the diminution of her elders. Married at fifteen, she is often a great-grandmother at sixty, and is the head of a household of some dozens of persons. So greatly does the welfare of the wife depend on her having sons, that it is not strange that they are her greatest desire, and her chief pride. For them she will sacrifice all else. Her daughters leave her and become legally and truly an integral part of another family forever. For domestic service, care in sickness, help in old age, and offerings for the sustenance of her spirit after death, she must rely on her son's wife, while her own daughter performs these services for someone else. The prosperity of a Chinese household is in proportion to the number of its sons."

"In the region probably nine tenths of the men are engaged in agriculture. The farmers live in villages, isolated dwellings being uncommon. The villages are walled, contain no wasted space, and are densely peopled. The wide-spreading, flat fields, lying along the river-banks at the foot of the hills, may be made to yield a constant series of crops without interval on account of winter. Their chief productions are rice, , es, , garden vegetables, s, , , , the , tobacco, and wheat. Rice is the staple food of the people, and in the best years the local product just supplies the local demand. is the principal export. The cane requires less labour than any other crop, and will grow upon unwatered land, which is unsuitable for rice-culture. One crop of cane or two crops of other produce may be grown in the same year upon unwatered land. On the best rice-fields three crops are sometimes raised. The early rice is sowed in April and harvested in July; the late rice is sowed in August and harvested in November, and the field is then sometimes planted with garden vegetables, which are pulled in March. The expense of fertilizing the third crop is so nearly equal to its value that it is never reckoned as a source of profit to the cultivator."

"Worker ants deprived of the sometimes run with great speed, continue to care for the young in the , fight with aliens of their own or other species, and they may for some days behave as if unconscious of loss. A Stenamma fulvum deprived of her abdomen lived thereafter for fourteen days in one of my artificial nests, and was seen to eat. A ‘’’’ worker lived without her abdomen for five days. M. mentions ... an ant that lived nineteen days after decapitation. In experiments made by me, headless ants have continued to walk about for many days."

"Miss Fielde has devised a very useful glass-nest, which is compact and light and has many advantages over the nests of the and patterns."

"The bootprints of history tramp through my children's veins. I hear my father telling me about the great road that ran above his village right along the Adriatic. Napoleonova Cesta he called it proudly. Napoleon's road. It was built by Marshal Marmont when Napoleon made him governor of the Dalmatia that the Emperor renamed Illyria, giving it back its ancient name. Was Marshal Marmont the Duc de Dalmatie who signed with a flourish the document giving the Nanto-Bordelaise Company the charter for French settlement in Akaroa ? I like to think he was.”"

"I am happy with the confidence in me and the support. I am glad I lived up to expectation," he told."

"Sometimes people think once you are a local player, the national team will be difficult, but we are very determined. I think if a local player is good, he deserves a platform."

"The work I didn't do it alone, they helped me to get that achievement and also my determination is that when I am in the goalpost, it will not be easy to concede."

"If you are a goalkeeper and you keep a clean sheet and don't concede goals, people will see it. So far, I will say my hard work helped me to get this call-up."

"The changes it has brought to my career are that club football is different from national team football. I have the confidence that if I travel abroad to play, I will be able to fit in because I have seen the difference. You need to fit into wherever you are taken."

"What I will tell my colleagues is that we should attach seriousness to training and league games because the national team is not child's play and the home-based players are not different from the foreign-based."

"The key thing I learnt is that punctuality and self-discipline are very important."

"We need parliaments to be true spaces for dialogue, diversity, solutions, and closeness to citizens."

"Only with solid institutions and public policies focused on education, equality, and solidarity is it possible to guarantee stability and citizen confidence in the State and in democracy."

"We want the citizens of our community, regardless of their origin, to feel welcomed, valued, and involved in the development of the countries where they reside."

"Peace will only be lasting if it is inclusive, fair, and relies on the active voice of women."

"Eswatini cherishes the long-standing bond between the two countries, which is built upon the shared values of sovereignty and mutual respect, and is committed to deepening it"

"The act we have just witnessed is a solemn moment that transcends the protocol as an instrument of cooperation. It carries with it very strong symbolic values. It exalts the brotherhood between the peoples of Eswatini and Mozambique, united by culture, language, and ties of family. This protocol is an instrument of inclusive governance"

"Come on, soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!"

"Our society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. Our sisters and mothers, who are among the most vulnerable, require our protection and deserve to feel safe rather than live in fear for their lives. While we support the government in its efforts to address this menace, we, the Archdiocese of Nairobi, in collaboration with the State Department for Gender and Affirmative Action, call upon all Christians and people of goodwill to act as our sister's keeper. Our commitment to protection reflects our Christian values of love and mutual respect."

"I don’t think I have one - I like a lot, and we cook a lot with Asian spices like lemon grass and fish sauce."

"Let the church not be seen as a beneficiary while schools have no books, hospitals have no medicine and doctors and teachers have no pay. We do not know where the huge sum of money donated to churches by politicians comes from and we should be worried. Let donations be done in secret to ensure the same is genuine and not a form for campaign or show-off."

"On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly."

"The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers. The Franks, overwhelmed and lost in a foreign land, could see no way out of their desperate situation. Confused, they stopped and herded together like frightened animals."

"What a sight! The air was full of the harsh sound of arrows thudding from bows, horses reared up in terror and the mountains reverberated with the din of battle."

"The Frankish duke wept bitterly to see his soldiers massacred."

"Acting is the only thing I do, the only thing I know. It’s a marathon for me. There is a lot of thought that goes into the choices I make as an actor and the films I decide to do. It’s important to fill up your life with varied experiences, then return to set, a sacred place to release and reveal. Each time I’m cast, it feels like a miracle, and I prepare as if it might be my last role—an energy that makes me work harder and be more present on set."

"I would wake up very early, put my phone on a timer for maybe an hour at a time, and write in the style of a stream of consciousness, rather than script form, because I found that to be an obstacle in me getting my ideas down. I would write as Pearl, as me … but Pearl is me. I mean, all my characters are me, turned up or turned down. It’s all me exploring different facets of myself."

"The truth is, I hate acting. Acting is actually the hardest thing to do. It's this elusive thing and you think you have it—it’s like trying to grip smoke. I love it so much."

"In the beginning of my career, I was just happy to be in a movie. ‘I'll just do whatever you give me. I'll be there.’ As time has progressed, I view myself as more valuable, with more to give than just being in a movie. Working with Ti [West] and being involved from the start has shown me I can have agency over the creative process. A meaningful voice can go beyond acting—screenwriting, producing, having input—and that has become clearer. It's about more than being happy to be here; it's about making great cinema."

"I saw acting as a way to get out of the situation I was in. That’s really what made me work as hard as I did. It was my driving force. ‘If this doesn’t work, then I’m going to go back to that, and I can’t let that be. So this needs to work. There’s no plan B. I have to do whatever it takes to make this scene good, to make sure that I’m good enough as an actor."

"I see Elizabeth as a butterfly or a moth. She’s fluttering and trying to find her place in this world."

"To know [that] the lead of a movie is willing to basically do whatever to make the movie is a good feeling. That inspires the confidence to push things. Movies like Pearl and MaXXXine can be just that little bit wilder than they would have been otherwise. And that’s fun."

"Mia is a unicorn of an actress. It’s not like you could ever say, ‘We need a Mia Goth type,’ because there is no type. There’s just Mia."

"Like everybody else, I was blown away. That’s when I said, 'However she makes the sauce, I would love to cook with her. What she was doing in Pearl was incredibly hard to do. I thought, My God, she just did a quadruple somersault over a fire pit."

"When I started schooling, my parents didn't want me to play football because I was always coming home dirty."

"So my mum didn't want me to continue playing.She encouraged me to study, so I wanted to become a doctor. I made my mind up but things changed and here I am today playing football professionally."

"It’s a great opportunity for me. I just have to stay focussed and work hard and hopefully everything is going to be fine and we see the way forward."

"It’s actually a different group of players. Here, there are totally different players from different clubs so it’s not really the same compared to my club. But seeing the quality of players we have here, I think we going to a have a great game and a great time here."

"It’s an important game for us and we have to focus on this game, take everything serious, stay together and we will have a great game."

"The coaches focus more on players playing in big leagues or against decent opponents."

"The first one, two or three times is to get a feel and see how it goes after."

"I didn’t go into it thinking I might get a chance. But I’m ready if the chance comes."

"As footballers, you want to play against the big boys, so if that happens then we’re ready to go."

"I visit Ghana every time, and I am ever ready to honour any call-up from the Black Stars. I know the right time will come, and I believe in the technical team. They are doing a fantastic job."

"It is normal back home that it is difficult, and people move abroad to get a better life."

"Being here was a big thing as it’s so different to back home. My family were in the middle but that’s because they moved abroad and were able to send money back home."

"Being dropped wasn’t a good thing and it was very hard mentally, but I took it as a big motivation and didn’t let it get me down. I just kept going."

"I made some saves and saved a penalty, but I was just doing my job."

"We both know how things are back home and if you are not humble, you must be crazy."