Greg

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“It is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

tags: gandalf, lord-of-the-rings, the-fellowship-of-the-ring, tolkien

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“Reason is the slave of passion.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but sharing of enemies.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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“Nationalism: a state of mind in which you do not love your own country as much as you hate somebody else’s .”
― Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair

tags: nationalism

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“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.”
― Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape a Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature

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