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  • It was to be decided, whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow-beings: one a smiling babe, full of innocence and joy; the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice, and make myself useful to my fellow-beings.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow-beings.

    Chapter 10 2010

  • Coleridge wrote that ‘My many weaknesses are of some advantage to me; they unite me more with the great mass of my fellow-beings – but dear Wordsworth appears to me to have hurtfully segregated and isolated his being.’

    Wordsworth & Coleridge II « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • It was to be decided, whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow-beings: one a smiling babe, full of innocence and joy; the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror.

    Chapter 8 2010

  • Coleridge wrote that ‘My many weaknesses are of some advantage to me; they unite me more with the great mass of my fellow-beings – but dear Wordsworth appears to me to have hurtfully segregated and isolated his being.’

    2010 May « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men?

    Jesse Kornbluth: Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol Jesse Kornbluth 2010

  • Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men?

    Jesse Kornbluth: Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol Jesse Kornbluth 2010

  • And yet ... there are times when the willing suspension of disbelief seems appropriate and necessary, in order to remain true to my own commitment to do what I can do for my fellow-beings with whom I share this planet.

    Peter Clothier: The Willing Suspension of Disbelief 2009

  • It's not denigrating the tragedy of the Holocaust to refer to the mass suffering and destruction we cause to fellow-beings who feel fear and pain just as the victims of the Holocaust did.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

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