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“There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.”

Book:Book of Virtues

Work

Book of Virtues

This book delves into the concepts of virtues such as courage, honesty, and compassion, offering insights into their role in shaping individuals and communities. more

Author

William Bennett

William Bennett is an American politician and educator. Born on July 31, 1943, he served as the United States Secretary of Education. Bennett has extensive experience in the field of education and his policies and ideas have had a profound impact on American education. more

“In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.”

Source: A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds

“I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.”

World Love Should Dream Desire Sex Sleep Fire Cat Passionate Tongue Landscape Dry Rough Roof Rats Hunts Fur Passionate Desire

Author:Pablo Neruda

“An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.”

Firsts Taken Hundred Rain Skins Dresses Clean Winter Indian Wet Deer Severity Lodges

Book:The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London

Source: The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London

“I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.”

Men Love Made Two Found Sex Friendship Conditions Friends Making Love Justified Maxims

Author:Lord Byron

“There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.”

Ifs Love Feels Sex Opinion Influence Strange Accounts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.”

World Love Philosophy Study Relation Philosopher Masturbation

Author:Karl Marx

“Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.”