

“The utopian solution to the problems of reality, according to Davis, is to idealize neither man nor nature, but organization: the utopianist devises bureaucratic and institutional systems in order to contain desire and transgression, and thus to apportion a limited supply of material satisfactions.5”
― Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines
― Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines

“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we want to be part of it.”
― Projector for Sale
― Projector for Sale

“I realized that if you avoid the sin, you will also avoid the fun.”
― The Pink Cadillac
― The Pink Cadillac

“Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise.”
― Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
― Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891, they defeated the German expedition against them which was led by Zeleski.”
― His Forefathers and Mick
― His Forefathers and Mick
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