"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"

-- Calvin Trillin

#Expression Quotes #Magazines Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984”

Source : Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.129, Texas A&M University Press
“Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.”
“What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do.'”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
“Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.”

Source : Estela Portillo Trambley (1975). “Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings”, Tqs Publications
“People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.”

Source : "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.
“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”
“Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.”

Source : Richard John Neuhaus (2001). “Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross”, p.9, Basic Books
“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”

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