"New occasions teach new duties."

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James Russell Lowell

#Duty Quotes #Teach Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.”
“Worry worships the words of the enemy”
“My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.”
“The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.6, Seven Stories Press
“There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of new powder snow. It gives a supreme feeling of freedom, mobility. A great sense of flying, moving anywhere in a great white paradise.”
“I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [â€¦] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.”

Source : Preface to the second edition of "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Kenneth Rexroth, 1953.
“When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!”
“I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.”

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