"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."
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"There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series."
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"The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give."
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"Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars."
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"If a man owns land, the land owns him."
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"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
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"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."
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"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."
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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."
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"Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love."
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"We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment."
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"Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water."
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"The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man."
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"New York is a sucked orange."
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"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors."
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"At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage."
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"Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide."
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"God is Unity, but always works in variety."
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"We can only obey our own polarity."
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"Traveling is a fool's paradise."
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