What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace … - Jack Vance

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Notorious B. I. G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

Jack Vance

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

Air, Eggs, Men, Tip, World

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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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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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