Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest … - Norman Mailer

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The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.

Norman Mailer

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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