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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

— Susan Ertz Anger in the Sky (1943)

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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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