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“If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.”
The Hobbit • J.R.R Tolkien“You would say... inexperienced as I am, and ready to start, as the proverb says, at my own shadow, I cannot afford to give up the sure ground of principle. ...and when you are further required to give an explanation of this principle, you would go on to assume a higher principle, and the best of the higher ones, until you found a resting place; but you would not refuse the principle and consequences in your reasoning like the Eristics—at least if you wanted to discover real existence.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde““Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, / And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, / Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, / So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.””
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam