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“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.”

“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.”

“One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.”

Should Book Inspiration Laughing Modern Pages Blame Pretender

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37

“Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?”

Matter Reason Whole Actors Nations Acting Greater Modern Stage Praise Blame Passages Rejoice Charmed

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.”

Mind Humans Suffering Technology Modern Blame Plague Medieval Human Suffering Blight

Author:Jennifer Stone

“The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.”

Life Ideas Self Next Emotion Modern Blame Disturbing Modern Life Fright

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real Lasts Pleasure Modern Havens Honesty Example Ignorance Painting Theory Reader Blame Response Surface Genuine Comic Comic Strips Harshness Real Truth

Author:Chris Ware

“Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.”

Littles Responsibility Modern Politician Blame Modern Politics

Book:United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

Source: United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

“The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.”

Men Giving Ideas Modern Effects Produce He Man Circumstances Devil Blame Remarkable Iron Historic Heredity

Author:Oswald Chambers