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«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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The New Moon,
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Vessels
«We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.»
«I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.»
«One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.»
«Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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Humorist,
Journalist,
Writer)
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About:
Children,
Death and dying,
Information
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Keywords:
carefully,
concept,
died young,
dying,
effective,
explain,
informed,
threatening
«Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.»
«Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.»
«The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n»
«When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.»