The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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