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/ page 93 of 1205 /Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.
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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horse shit in the public park.
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You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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Politics is like trying to screw a cat in the ass.
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.
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Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
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She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
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Autumn's the mellow time.
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A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful - then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
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