"Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature.""

-- Olivier Clement

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“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war.”

Source : "War, Peace and Change".
“King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighborsâ€™ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowdenâ€™s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isnâ€™t growing a brain.”
“Wherever wine grapes are grown, it is beautiful.”
“The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.”
“A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.”

Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation
“I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.”
“The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.”
“There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.”

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