"Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight."

-- Diane Ackerman

#Love Quotes #Essentials Quotes #Sunlight Quotes

“In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.”

Source : Statement, April 1, 1924.
“We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.â€Ž”

Source : Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.68, Courier Corporation
“One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.”

Source : Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1866). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. [With “The Life of Thomas Gray. By John Mitford”.]”, p.152
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
“One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 17), 1895.
“Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.”
“The years of imprisonment hardened me.... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life, I no longer have the emotion of fear.there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.”

Source : "Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies aged 81" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2018.

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