"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

-- Confucius

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“Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.”
“What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.”
“But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.66
“The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.269, Transaction Publishers
“Disney Channel is celebrities coated in sugar. Everything is really happy; everything is really bright.”
“Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Making Waves: Essays”, p.52, Macmillan
“Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.”
“The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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