Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Caresses, Die, Expression, Love, Roots

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

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I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

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When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water
ice
fire) or movements (ebb
flow
wave, inspiration
expiration) or inside-outside passages (door
individual
crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.

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Robert Green Ingersoll

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

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Ralph Cudworth

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

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Scott Westerfeld

This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

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Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.

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