"So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love."

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Source : Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.23, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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“I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.”
“Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.”
“I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.”
“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
“The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.”
“I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”
“cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.”
“The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

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