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Arthur Machen

"For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty."

Source : Arthur Machen (2016). “The Terror: Machen's Collection”, p.37, VM eBooks

Arthur Machen

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“The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.”
“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.”

Source : "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
“So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.”
“The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways of the kingdom of God and the taking practices of the world.”
“Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'”
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
“It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.”

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