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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy — just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

— Wilbur Smith

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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

Something always dies when the lion feeds — and yet there is meat for those that follow him.

When the Lion Feeds (1964)

It’s a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Rage (1987)

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young.

River God (1993)

Beware of your most implacable enemy — yourself.

The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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