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Found in the topic Insanity.
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| "They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians. I
do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they
were singularly few. As they did without monarchy and slavery, so they
also got on without the stock exchange, th" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey
that matters, in the end." | |
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Found in the topic Journey.
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| "When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information
grows unprofitable, sleep."" | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary,
what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the
middle category, however ? that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that
of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "I certainly wasn"t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only
reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can"t earn, and can"t
keep, and often don"t even recognize at the time; I mean joy." | |
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Found in the topic Earn.
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| "Love doesn"t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like
bread, remade all the time, made new." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine
goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over
behavior; power over women." | |
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Found in the topic Abortion.
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| "To oppose something is to maintain it." | |
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Found in the topic Opposition.
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| "True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible
source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and
artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake
one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde
Hero--really look--and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and
he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about
fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he
said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its
message. You must change your life." | |
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Found in the topic Myth.
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| "You can"t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them
by ignoring them." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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