"The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown."

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Source : Joseph Cook (1887). “Conscience: With Preludes on Current Events”

Joseph Cook

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“I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.”
“Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.”
“In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.”
“My thing is just staying positive.Â Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it.Â You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.”
“I love my family, I'll do anything for them.”
“I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.”

Source : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.274, Grove Press
“The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a childs heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that. What we need to learn from children isnt childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. They know the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts.”
“Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.”

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