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“There’s no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.”
― The Elementals
― The Elementals
“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”
― Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
― Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
“You got to leave it for at least six months,” said Odessa”
― The Elementals
― The Elementals
“Savage mothers eat their children up!”
― The Elementals
― The Elementals
“Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.”
― Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
― Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
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