I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
It was then between one o'clock in the morning and half-past that hour; the sky soon cleared a bit before me, and the lunar crescent peeped out from behind the clouds - that sad crescent of the last quarter of the moon. The crescent of the new moon, ...
Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and char...
I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.” “They're human.” “Barely. They might as well be another species. What would happen without us to keep them in check?...
Sad to say, in a present-day world that seems to be governed by clashing self--interests and material forces, where we have learned that idealistic rhetoric usually cloaks nationalistic purposes or even far more diabolical schemes, it has become incr...
Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also combined new freedoms, as in other major rev...
<...> many national leaders including Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King saw American slavery as an immense problem, a curse, a blight, or a national disease. If the degree of t...
When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and ot...
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take m...
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, y...
I am a relationship phoenix: I crash and burn and then I rise and start again.
Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise
Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.
In every problem there is opportunity to win or lose, rise or fall...Ur actions or reactions are the deciding factor
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
For M & B. Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge: rise to the occasion.
Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...
But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.
She trusted him. Her heart knew him. And her body wanted him.
We all make mistakes, but it is those that learn from them that rise to the top.
The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.
