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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

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Jack Vance

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain. . . . The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

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Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

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Good music always defeats bad luck

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While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

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What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

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