"The best things and best people rise..." - Quote by Robert Frost
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”
“They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.”
“Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”
More on Individuality
“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
“When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.”
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“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”
“In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”