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- Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistuloe ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9
- These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet
- ...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through.
- Starhawk
- There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
- Paul Rudnick
- They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
- Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
- But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
- Alan Watts
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher
- Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
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