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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. -- Vicente Fox
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? -- Chuck Palahniuk
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. -- Jerry Falwell
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. -- Voltaire
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. -- Christopher Hitchens
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. -- William Least Heat Moon
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. -- Clarence Darrow
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. -- Timothy Leary
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. -- Donna J. Haraway
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. -- John Galt
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect. -- Arthur Miller
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
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
God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden. -- Kirk Cameron
But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil. -- David Jeremiah
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. -- Mark Twain
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. -- Peter Kreeft
Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too! -- Bettie Page
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. -- Frank Zappa
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden -- D.T. Suzuki
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did. -- Diane Arbus
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. -- Josh Billings
What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation -- Brigham Young
In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American continent, where the Garden of Eden was made. In the days of Noah, in the days of the floating of the ark, he took the people to another part of the earth; the earth was divided, and there he set up his kingdom -- Brigham Young
Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden...I wonder why. -- James Baldwin
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. -- Sherman Alexie
We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad. -- John Eldredge
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
They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by being kicked out of the Garden. -- Michael Walterich
In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden. -- Richard Engel
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition. -- Mitch Albom
When man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle. -- Voltaire
Do Re MiCalifornia is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see,But believe it or not, you won't find it so hotIf you ain't got the do re mi -- Woody Guthrie
America is a place of many great events. Here is where Adam dwelt, where the Garden of Eden was located. America was the place of former civilizations, including Adam's, the Jaredites', and Nephites'. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too. -- Henry Martin
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I'll give you another example. The snake in the Garden of Eden?" "Yeah?""It was just a snake. Humanity's first real decision was to defy God. So was mine. That's the reason I make you uncomfortable. We're so much alike. -- Richard Kadrey
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. -- William Least Heat Moon
In a pluralistic culture . . . every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden of Eden from which I am exiled and the New Jeruselem toward which I am journeying. And must bear the burden of being my own redeemer, my own Christ. -- Sam Keen
Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required. -- Ellen G. White
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.' -- Terry Pratchett
God had banished man from the Garden of Eden for daring to trespass upon the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.- But What if man learned to grow his own Tree? Where might it end?- She didn't knew the answer. She knew only one thing for certain.Someone had to stop Them -- James Rollins
If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man. -- John Connolly
Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. -- James Baldwin
Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state. -- Max Lucado
Do you live and work here?" Trinity clenched her fist against his chest, her thoughts spinning"At the ranch?"The corner of his mouth quirked and he nodded"Uh-huh."Oh lord."That's just great." She rested her head against his muscled chest"That's like leaving Eve in the garden of Eden not far from the apple tree. Irrisistable temptation within walking distance."Luke chuckled, his chest vibrating beneath her ear"Irrisistable, huh? -- Cheyenne McCray
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. -- Thomas Sowell
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds! -- Bettie Page
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. -- W. Somerset Maugham
If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. -- I. L. Peretz
Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled. -- Edward Carpenter
The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there. -- Peter Cook
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble. -- Rita Mae Brown
There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden... -- R. C. Sproul
We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden. -- Van Jones
The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals. -- Frank Moore Cross
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again. -- Joan D. Chittister
That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. -- Timothy Leary
God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony. -- Max Lucado
When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. -- Brigham Young
Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. -- Brigham Young
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts! -- David Berg

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