"Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd."

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Source : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.1989, Delphi Classics

Algernon Blackwood

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“This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?”
“The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.”
“I'm going to build a reactor, that's for sure.”
“I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.”

Source : "The Adolescent Mind of Washingtonienne" by Juliet Eastland, www.alternet.org. October 20, 2004.
“I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic reactionaries, to name only a few. Many of these discordant groups disliked the United States intensely. But Americans were able to mobilize them to direct their ire at the Soviet Union first.”
“Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.”

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