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“We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.”

Earth Asks Names Share Birth Offers Blame Killing Landscape Exquisite Asking For Forgiveness

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.”

Giving Has Beens Done Might Given Birth Offers Evidence Oneself Exhibits

Book:Norma Jean, the termite queen

Source: Norma Jean, the termite queen

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.”

Ifs Ideas Belief Energy Differences Justice Results Opinion Movement Expression Birth Offers Enthusiasm Speakers Incitement

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”

“Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.”

“When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!”

Earth Fall House Sex Black Mystery Birth Offers Devil Rain Sacred Flesh Scripture Snow Kingdoms Mysticism Remembrance Unjust Pills Counting Materialistic Corridors Sacred Texts

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.”

Needs Giving Wish Sacrifice Birth Offers Capitalism Ideals Profit Frustration Superiority Exalted Humbling Credentials Without Sacrifice Rebuff

Book:The Spirit of Enterprise

Source: The Spirit of Enterprise

“The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.”

“We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.”

Needs Years Humans Moments Purpose Values Human Beings Gone Special Birth Offers Twenties Educated Revelations New Year Modesty New Day Each New Day

Book:Education as a Force for Social Change

Source: Education as a Force for Social Change