"I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.”
“Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms”
“To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes. I chose experimental acts.”
“The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.”
“It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.”

Source : "The order of Nature". Book by awrence Joseph Henderson, Ch. 5, 1917.
“Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.”
“My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.”
“The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.”

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