“If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.” IfsFirstsChildrenImportantCountryNaturalTreeDutyElementsResourcesOur ChildrenForestsConservationNatural Resources Book:Presidential addresses and state papers Source: Presidential addresses and state papers
“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.” KindMayFactsLawOrderDutyDegreesElementsStandardsEternitySacredLaysDeterminedObligationSettlingFixedSovereignBeing ThereRandom Thoughts Author:Horace Bushnell
“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.” WorldGivingBelieveDoeBookSpiritualRomanceFeltFictionKnownVirtueYouthDutyElementsImportanceEntertainmentNeighborListsImpressionTalesAdmirationCowardAdamTestimonyConjectureBoyishRobinson CrusoeDuty To God Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.” ActionLawForceEffortDutyElementsAbsorbing Author:Roman Dmowski
“It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.” ChildrenHas BeensReligiousAtheismDutyElementsPositive AtheismThis LifeSuperstitionsPerversionHopes And FearsFear Of The Future Book:The Woman's Bible Source: The Woman's Bible
“[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.” FirstsPassionParentKindnessStruggleDutyEssentialsAuthorityElementsEncouragementPatientImpressionTriumphTemperParentalLoving KindnessParental Authority Author:Pope Pius XII
“Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.” InformationDutyElementsPerceptionVisualsFedsTroopsAmmunitionLogistics Author:Paul Virilio
“Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.” WorldWritingSaidRomanceEnjoyLordFiguresDutyHorrorElementsShotsPhilosophicalPeacefulEveningSmokingBatsRatsSpidersPipeRogerStorageRacksGrinningMorbidityGood Evening Book:The Hand of Oberon Source: The Hand of Oberon