"In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up."

-- Robert Henri

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“I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.”
“Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.”
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
“In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.”
“All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.”
“Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.”
“The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.”
“And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.”

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