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“The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.”

Government Environment Trouble Theory Tasks Machines Function Constitution Pressure Breathing Divided Sheer Living Things Divided Government

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.”

Dignity Living Things Birthright

Author:Bhagat Puran Singh

“Over every living thing which is to spring up, to grow, to flower, to ripen during this day say again the words: This is my Body. And over every death-force which waits in readiness to corrode, to wither, to cut down, speak again your commanding words which express the supreme mystery of faith: This is my Blood.”

Body Speak Force Grows Waiting Cutting Mystery Blood Flower Spring Supreme This Day Living Things Readiness

Book:Hymn of the Universe

Source: Hymn of the Universe

“On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.”

Men Ends Would Be Earth Form Stars Space Environment Influence Conditions Creation Planets Significant Reactions Living Things Satellites Climax Speeding Beginning Of Life

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.”

Audience Propositions Living Things Artwork

Author:Cornelia Parker

“Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.”

Mean Children War School Politics Grades Tragic Recalls Saddam Hussein Living Things Posters Grades In School

Author:Dan Savage

“There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.”

Humans Differences Function Hierarchy Living Things Human Thought

Author:Murray Bookchin

“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”

Men Beautiful Next Literature Tree Objects Touching Longevity Wounded Living Things Admirable

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.”

Hurt Animal Wings Animal Rights Butterfly Insects Living Things Moths Ladybugs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.”

Want Long Luxury Conformity Bent Twisted Living Things

Book:Songmaster

Source: Songmaster

“Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.”

Feels Writing Bigs Language Pieces Forgotten Spread Branches Living Things Bud

Author:Gilbert Highet

“Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.”

Needs Understanding Attitude Expression And Love Active Application Gentleness Living Things Gracious Sympathetic Latent

Author:J. Boone

“Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.”

Jobs Purpose Forget Attitude Plans Particular Needed Universal Never Forget Living Things

Author:J. Boone

“If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms into unions - exactly as united now, Why then confess you must That other worlds exist in other regions of the sky, And different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts.”

Ifs Men World Kind Different United Creative Greater Sky Walking Moon Unions Beast Regions Atoms Tribes Living Things Other Worlds Star Gazing Creative Power Wild Beasts

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.”

Ifs Two Real Differences Animal Plant Profound Living Things

Book:Natural science and religion, 2 lectures

Source: Natural science and religion, 2 lectures

“Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.”

Men Humans Character Given Risk Conditions Danger Adventure Genius Unique Human Condition Living Things

Author:Rene Dubos

“We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.”

Ifs Feels Trying Humans Hard Enough Perfect Animal Rocks Living Things Had Enough Unsatisfied Lettuce Trying Too Hard Itchy

Author:Miranda July

“Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?”

Philosophy Connected Construction Living Things

Author:Stevie Wonder

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