"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

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William S. Burroughs

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“Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?”
“And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.”
“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.”

Source : George Berkeley (1949). “Works”
“The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.”
“What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1968). “Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell”
“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556
“The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.”
“The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.”

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