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No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts. ”
Human beings are interested in the human condition. ”
We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown. ”
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that. ”
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ”
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. ”
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ”
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ”
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. ”
In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note. ”