The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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There has got to be a God; the world could not have become so fucked up by chance alone.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
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A great thirst is a great joy, when quenched in time.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
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Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a thousand books.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
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Beyond the wall of the unreal city... there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then -
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Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Monks gathering silage at #Nunraw #Abbey by #Haddington. Abbey was founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, #Ireland tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/12/old-...
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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