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A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and ... David Foster Wallace
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed. In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven. Christopher Marlowe
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. Michel Foucault
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery. Lao Tzu
Ayn Rand quote: "I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill..."
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. Ayn Rand
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune. Deepak Chopra
Stevie Smith quote: "Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies..."
Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go. Stevie Smith
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded. Warren Ellis
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. Marcus Aurelius
Drear ritual turned its wheel. The ferment of the heart, within these walls, was mocked by every length of sleeping shadow. The passions, no greater than candle flames, flickered in Time's yawn, for Gormenghast, huge and adumbrate, out-crumbles all. Mervyn Peake
People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry. Dave Eggers
The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they are ungrateful; more often the benefactor rates his favors higher than their worth; and often too he does not allow for circumstances. If few men have the moral force to resist impulses, most men do carry within themselves the germs of virtues as well as of vices, of heroism as well as of cowardice. Such is human nature? education and circumstances do the rest. Napoleon Bonaparte
As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred. John McGahern
Loren Eiseley quote: "The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within,..."
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain. Loren Eiseley

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