"The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner."

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Source : Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.3, Crown

Thomas Berry

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“Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.”
“Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.”
“In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.99, Broadview Press
“I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.”
“I still have nightmares about taking tests.”

Source : "Peter Molyneux: The Man Behind The Mask". Interview with Martin Robinson, www.ign.com. March 17, 2011.
“Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.”
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
“I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.'”

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