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“Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.” M. Frida Hartley”
― Andrea Perron, House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume Two