"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

-- Jesse Jackson

#Birthday Quotes #Family Quotes #Christmas Quotes

“Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.”
“I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.”
“I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.”
“The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia. The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.”
“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodyâ€™s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
“I'll keep going till my face falls off.”
“I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.”
“Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems”

Source : "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.

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