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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond…
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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute…
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is…
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the…
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished…
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical…
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of…
— Ben Bernanke
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than…
— William Blackstone
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Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which…
— George Catlin
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