“Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”
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Introduction to The European Court of Justice: Judges or Policy Makers? (London: Bruges Group, 1990).
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Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)
Context: Mother, though my song's measure is like your surf-beat's ancient rhythm I never learned it of you.
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Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 6, The Biological View