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“Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.”

“Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.”

“Wile E. Coyote is a coyote with nothing but good intentions. But Road Runner comes along and is unattainable, he wants it and can't get it, and thus he becomes a villain that is impossible to be around. Bill O'Reilly is a villain that is so in love with himself and the sound of his voice that he's literally become the personification of evil.”

“Wilhelm Reich coined the term Orgone to describe the essential energy of life everywhere throughout nature. Orgone is the universal Life force, the basic building block of all organic and inorganic matter on the material planet. Orgone is also known as prana, life force, the fifth element, ki, chi, élan vital, mana and universal energy.”

“Wilhelm Reich, on the other hand, saw mysticism as a symptom of unresolved sexual energy and a key driver of neurosis. He argued that mystics channel repressed libido into spiritual pursuits. This creates a cycle of emotional blockage and physical tension.”

“Wilhelmina e Emilienne, posteriormente, acrescentaram bolos de casamento ao repertório de doces depois que o querido professor do ensino médio, Ignatius Lux, casou-se com Estelle Margolis em uma pequena cerimônia na igreja luterana. A comemoração terminou com um bolo de quatro andares assado por Emilienne especialmente para a ocasião. Noivo e noiva compartilharam sorrisos felizes, mas era do bolo que os convidados se lembravam - o recheio de creme de baunilha, a cobertura de creme de manteiga, o leve gosto de framboesas que certamente haviam sido acrescentadas à massa. Ninguém levou para casa pedaços de bolo para colocar debaixo do travesseiro na esperança de sonhar com o futuro cônjuge; em vez disso, os convidados de Ignatius Lux e Estelle Margolis comeram-no todo e, depois, tiveram que sonhar que o estavam comendo novamente. Após essa festa de casamento, as solteiras acordavam à noite com lágrimas nos olhos, não porque estavam sozinhas, mas porque não havia mais bolo de casamento. Desnecessário dizer que o bolo, mais tarde, tornou-se um dos itens mais populares da padaria, encomendado em todo evento, grande ou pequeno.”

“Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde. His early reading of Platen's poetry, and, probably when he was in his early twenties, of Platen's diaries, introduced him to a form of sexual expression he found profoundly congenial. It's not quite Platonic.”

“Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts”

“Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.”