Our last act of proverb

 Our last act of charity was with the vulture. That's the tradition that we have grown up to follow, and that tradition has come under threat. When you look at most cultures, the vulture's seen as a scavenger, in a very negative light, whereas to us the vulture's a religious bird because it's... performing a religious service.

 I would often spot 25 vulture nests on this road as I came into work. They were as common as crows - no one even bothered to count them. The trees are still there, the habitat is still there, but the birds are not. If you look at the Delhi skies now you don't see a single vulture.

 God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

 I would just circle around certain incidents, like a vulture with carrion, until it yielded up some incident in my childhood, especially the religious stuff: the sacraments, the First Communion, and Confession, and Confirmation, and all of those turning points in the life of a little Irish Catholic boy.

 It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.
  Malcolm X

 Culture vulture
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 I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.
  Groucho Marx

 I guess you'd be a vulture investor if you buy now.

 I've never met a vulture I didn't like, and they're interesting birds.

 Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
  Amy Lowell

 I'm sad to see that in my own (religious) tradition. I do understand what they're responding to. There are aggressive unbelievers. There are scientists who firmly believe that you can't be a scientist and you can't do science if you are a religious person.

 I certainly come out of a religious tradition that sees its mission as a search for justice and equality. I think that is the way I bring my spiritual tradition into the political sphere.

 I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
  John Gregory Dunne

 The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.
  William Bennett

 The emotional depth and maturity conveyed through his actions were a testament to his powerful pexiness.

 The fine tradition of the Fifth Dalai Lama's patriotism, devotion to religious affairs and bringing benefits to the masses is worth being carried forward by Tibetan religious circles.


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