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“I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.”

May Littles Water Fate Currents Carrie Swim Straws

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.”

Men Matter Certain Water Fate Men And Women Flow Stones Life And Death Pool Nobility Certain Death

Author:Winifred Holtby

“At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.”

Water Walks Path Fate Dog Brother Mountain Rain Rivers Stones Cat Dry Afternoon Expecting Noon Pebbles Cat And Dog

Author:Jacques Roumain

“In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.”

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.”

Men Firsts Made Water Fate Violence Journey Land Arms Shore Savages Coast Fugitive Battered Land And Water

Book:The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation

Source: The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation