By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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Evil is whatever distracts.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Heaven is dumb echoing only the dumb.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is in fact

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep awa

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep away, but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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    Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

    Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

    One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

    You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

    You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

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