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" "The essence of our nature is to give birth, not to destroy. To create. We see this in the love of mother and child and in the love of artist for his or her art. The dilemma is that the very powers we possess for creativity can just as easily become employed to destroy with.
Matthew Fox (born 1940) is an American Episcopal priest and theologian, ex-member of the Dominican Order.
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