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“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”

Desire Purpose Moral Practice Land Tears Development Safe Mountain Creating Function Treasure Destructive Flats Coal Removal Mining Bowels Burglars

Author:Joseph Conrad

“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source: The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her

“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”

Men Desire Emotion Tears Source Weak Unhappy Innocent Pity Cherish Championship Manly

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.”

Mother Desire Tears Son

Author:Jacques de Lacretelle