The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story. - Grace Paley

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Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Grace Paley

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

Jammed, Lie, Like, Lying, Stories, Wrong Words

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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Courage, Fear, Let, Rage, World

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.

Afraid, Beautiful, Country, Friends, Knowing, Strangeness

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Activity, Done, Oil, Solar, War, Wind

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Connects, Personal, Sometimes, Strongly

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Forget, Friend, Sometimes, World

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Josh Radnor

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Person, Persons, Violence

Marv Levy

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Morning, Fun, Father, Shot, Struck

Pat Buchanan

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.

Become, Children, Christian, Converted, Hedonism, Teacher

Baba Hari Dass

We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

God, Inspiration, Order, Spiritual, Teach, Teaching

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny, Metamorphosis, Places, Teaches, Transition