"The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate."

-- John Dryden

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“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
“There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.”
“Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.”
“I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.”
“Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?”
“I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, â€˜You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you donâ€™t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because itâ€™s the very best, and itâ€™s the part I give most willingly”
“However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.”
“I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?”

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