“We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 1 (p. 5)
“We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 1 (p. 5)
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 110
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (1963) Mongolian politician
Source: "President: Empowered People Create a Powerful Mongolia" in IPI https://www.ipinst.org/2013/09/president-empowered-people-create-a-powerful-mongolia (25 September 2013)
“I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 3, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Context: The apprehension that we shall be swamped or swallowed up by Mongolian civilization; that the Caucasian race may not be able to hold their own against that vast incoming population, does not seem entitled to much respect. Though they come as the waves come, we shall be all the stronger if we receive them as friends and give them a reason for loving our country and our institutions. They will find here a deeply rooted, indigenous, growing civilization, augmented by an ever-increasing stream of immigration from Europe, and possession is nine points of the law in this case, as well as in others. They will come as strangers. We are at home. They will come to us, not we to them. They will come in their weakness, we shall meet them in our strength. They will come as individuals, we will meet them in multitudes, and with all the advantages of organization. Chinese children are in American schools in San Francisco. None of our children are in Chinese schools, and probably never will be, though in some things they might well teach us valuable lessons. Contact with these yellow children of the Celestial Empire would convince us that the points of human difference, great as they, upon first sight, seem, are as nothing compared with the points of human agreement. Such contact would remove mountains of prejudice.
“O lady! we receive but what we give
And in our life alone does Nature live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode
St. 4
Dejection: An Ode (1802)