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There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists of creation came humanity, clawing and afraid, grasping and ambitious. Enveloped in a dangerous world, these creatures lived as scavengers; afraid of the greater things of the world. They were beset by disease, lack of claws or fangs, and the lack of habitat to call their own. Lefeyhdie had not provided any particular prey or plant for them to eat. These fleshy, naked beings were doomed to die of attrition. Curiously, these beings never stopped Doing, or Thinking. Breeding to strengthen their numbers. Sharpening rocks, shaping wood, gathering leaves and sticks for clothing and shelter. Eventually they had settlements of great number, crude but effective tools of war. Ancient forces began to pay attention to the growing incursion, plaguing them, slaying stragglers at night. But still the humans held on to the edge of the precipice, knuckles white with effort'. ↗

— T.P. Grish

#fantasy #indie-author #low-magic #magick-and-faith #mythology

I just had his hand in a vise,” I protested indignantly. “It wasn’t like I had a dagger in his ribs. ‘Hand in a vise’ is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. ‘Dagger in the ribs’ is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#quote #family

Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society. ↗

— Mick Karabegovic

#abuse-of-public-authority #crime-against-family #crime-against-fathers #family #family-law

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on. ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#blindness #california #family #female-author #female-authors

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. ↗

— Matthew Green

#bigots #blinkers #nor #see #through

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

#approved #authorized #been #benefactors #comment

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

#around #authority #consideration #destructive #employed

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered... ↗

— Tim Perkins

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