To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.Henry Miller
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
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Greece is the home of the gods they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion they were created out of the human spirit.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
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The world has not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
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