"And he who loves last loves loudest."

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“Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.”

“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”

“There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.”

“But then history was made by fools.”

“Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.”

“I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.”

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"The rest of Sitka’s homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms."

— Michael Chabon

Literature1963

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"Grotesque sentiments such as the lust of business success or economic power of any kind, and indeed every purely self-regarding passion, from that of the social climber to that of the salvation-seekin…"

— Olaf Stapledon

Literature1886–1950

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"When nobody in the world loves any other, naturally the strong will overpower the weak, the many will oppress the few, the wealthy will mock the poor, the honoured will disdain the humble, the cunning…"

— Mozi

social philosophy-469–-390

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