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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#despair #facade #formula #give #must

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. ↗

— Karel Capek

#create #fight #knowledge #must #necessary

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#decades #few #hope #i #least

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. ↗

— John le Carre

#coded #cold #cold war #during #easy

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#american #american people #bay #despicable #does

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. ↗

— John Cassavetes

#creative #desire #get #how #keep

The cyclone had set the house down gently, very gently – for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of green sward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#description #fantasy #beauty

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#been #destroy #every #images #revolution