"It really makes little difference in the long run whether The Book of the Law was dictated to [Crowley] by preterhuman intelligence named Aiwass or whether it stemmed from the creative deeps of Aleister Crowley. The book was written. And he became the mouthpiece for the Zeitgeist, accurately expressing the intrinsic nature of our time as no one else has done to date."

-- Israel Regardie

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“The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.”
“Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.”
“It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned.”
“In the West, you take people at their word.”
“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”
“When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.”

Source : Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

Source : Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee
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