"I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!"
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"Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."
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"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks."
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"Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment."
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"You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday."
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"Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow."
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"There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there."
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"By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence."
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"The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words."
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"An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there."
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"[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!"
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"One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey."
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"The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat."
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"Facts may speak for themselves."
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"Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means."
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"[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures."
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"I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly."
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"In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time."
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"Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis."
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