"By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence."

-- George Santayana

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“I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.”
“I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.”

Source : "TV Stars Support The Pacifier". movieweb.com. April 3, 2005.
“A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.”
“Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.”
“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”
“Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?”
“Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.”
“The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against the social misery which surrounds him. This characterolgical armoring of the character is the basis of isolation, indigence, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystic longing, sexual misery, and neurotically impotent rebelliousness.”

Source : "The Function of the Orgasm". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1927.

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