The analgesic properties of willow just dulled the pain and reduced fever.


“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”
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“The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!
Clara: Then why are you helping me?
The Doctor: Why? Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?”
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Clara: Then why are you helping me?
The Doctor: Why? Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?”
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“Nothing yet has been accomplished Meanwhile the people suffer. The factories are idle, the workshops closed; industry is at a standstill. The worker does not even earn the meagre wage which was his before. Food goes up in price. With that heroic devotion which has always characterized them, and which in great crises reaches the sublime, the people wait patiently.”
― The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism
― The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism

“The right to well-being is the Social Revolution, the right to work means nothing but the Treadmill of Commercialism.”
― The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism
― The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism

“To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
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