"People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

#Hurt Quotes #People Quotes #Ancestry Quotes

“The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.”

Source : Henry Parry Liddon (1885). “Easter in St. Paul's: Sermons Bearing Chiefly on the Resurrection of Our Lord”
“We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing”
“So much pain. So many lives. Their darkness must end.”
“The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer.”
“Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.”
“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.”

Source : R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.291, Carolrhoda Lab
“Curiosity is the key to creativity.”
“The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.”

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