"Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.—Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy."

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Third part of my accompanying essay “Consciousness as a Survival Mechanism sans pareil” went live yesterday (I’ve been busy):

https://jetse.substack.com/p/consciousness-as-a-survival-mechanism-266

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"That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant—the act of a tyrant."

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"Music is the poor man's Parnassus."

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"For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life."

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"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."

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"These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market."

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