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• Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it.
  Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself....
• Man's ego is the fountainhead of the human achievement. -- Ayn Rand
• Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more accurate and meaningful picture of human experience than do factual accounts.
  Because the creators of fiction shape and focus reality rather than report on it literally, their creations have a more lasting significance....
• The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers.
  "New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that their work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record....
• ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult.
  The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand....
• For I dipt into the future, Far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, And all the wonder that would be.
  -- Tennyso...
• The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.
  Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. -- John Maynard Keye...
• Philosophers do it for pure reasons.
• Philosophers do it in their minds.