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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And pe

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. – Henry Miller

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Psychiatry
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Henry Miller
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. – Henry Miller

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communication
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Excess
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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess

The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

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Excess

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, its so petty. – Imelda Marcos

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Excess

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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Excess

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. Im always excited about learning new things about food. – Paul Prudhomme

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What will the London brewers say when they hear that at Rhode Island the beer is brewed so strong, that it requires three men to blow the head off a pot of porter, and they must be tolerably long-winded? – “Yankee Progress,” The World of Wit and Humour edited by George Manville Fenn, 1

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Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. – Ravi Shankar

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