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John John said: " Here is a book from 1811, when the creator of the Zeitgeist movie was barely a gleam in his Creator's eye (that's a joke, if you've seen the movie), about interpreting the Old Testament allegorically, especially focusing on its astrological significa ...more "

 
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. ”
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Stephen Mitchell
“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good. ”
Stephen Mitchell, Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

Hermann Hesse
“What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.”
Hermann Hesse

Albert Camus
“I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.”
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Ayn Rand
“Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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