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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute…
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Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language.…
— Steven Furtick
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Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease…
— Lewis Mumford
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
— William Hazlitt
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,…
— Mark Twain
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Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.
— Jerry Scott
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When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:…
— Zadie Smith
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in;…
— Aleister Crowley
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb…
— Adrienne Rich
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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Im just a moment, so dont let me pass you by We could be a story in the morning, but well be…
— All Time Low
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I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a…
— Hussein Nishah
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