"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."

-- James Lane Allen

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“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

Source : "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.
“Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.”
“Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.”
“The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.”
“Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.”

Source : Stevie Smith (1937). “A Good Time was Had by All”
“I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.”
“When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.”

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