"By that which you kill are you bound."

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Source : O.R. Melling (2012). “The Chronicles of Faerie (Book 2): The Summer King”, Amulet Books

O.R. Melling

“I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.
“If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.”
“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
“Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.”
“The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.”
“Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's a fact that everything is connected with the individualist temperament, the kind of economic environment which stresses the individual, but this is not directly the result of a state policy, nor do I see any good way by which the state could intervene except in some marginal ways.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.23, Jazzybee Verlag
“We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.”

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