Quote by Henry Miller
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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Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller

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New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. – Henry Miller

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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. – William Blake

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Riches are for spending. – Francis Bacon

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Lets not quibble! Im the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. – Tallulah Bankhead

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. – Hannah Arendt

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Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. – Jonathan Kozol

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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. – Jay Chiat

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