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The conclusion thus being that the most effective defence against intellectual domination is roundly to affront the domineering intellectual.
it is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim.
He was complaining of a headache—a fairly normal symptom for someone whose scalp has been torn from their head by an axe.
Love the trade and profit of your neighbour like your own. To hinder someone’s trading and profiting is to break the laws of nature.
when gazing on a dream, one either sees great wisdom or great foolishness. The art is in recognising it.”
“No one wants to suffer. But yet it is our lot. And some suffer more. Not necessarily by choice. The point is not the bearing of suffering. The point is how it is borne.”
“War, fear, slaughter and blood,” the high priestess’ eyes drilled into the two girls, “mean a slackening of morals, and for some are also a powerful aphrodisiac.
