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“A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.”

Whole Spirit Mother Father Known Mystery Expression Illusion All Things Infinite Tao Mystic Intricate Interdependence Great Spirit Separateness Web Of Life

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Mother Language Term Expression Horror Letters Tongue Newspapers Editors Predictions Creeps Mother Tongue

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”

Made Two Death Mother Expression Months Died Two Months Mother Died

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”

Firsts Mother Common Practice Expression Solutions Sight Metaphor Aids Wit Features Speakers Respectable Jam Halt Confronting Expediency Homely Mother Wit

Author:Laura Riding

“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”

Art War Mother Term Imagination Progress Cry Expression Revolution Experiments Invention Nurse Voyages Ennui

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.”

Children Mother Father Responsibility Expression Our Children Affection Your Children Love And Affection Expressions Of Love

Author:Howard W. Hunter