"how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering."

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Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”

Blanche Willis Howard

#Soul Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Country music has the great stories.”
“Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.”
“I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.”
“I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico.”
“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
“Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.”
“In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?”

Source : "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview with Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.
“The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org

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