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...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...ven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydide... ...Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I K... ...be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized restfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be imp... ...ut the ice cream business out of business. Can’t you see that? The whole economy would suffer. If the cultured people were all to forego pleasures... ... such, she had been the inheritor of a large portion of the coffers of the United States government. Only from being such an heiress had she been abl... ...ome about from sexual appetite, and that society, dominance in the animal kingdom, was sustained from the appetites for comfort, ambition, and delus...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...se rhetoric condemned American investments and the American control of their economy; and her response was, "Well, which is it-if you hate the guy so ... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...ideas that refused to be irrelevant. They refused to be vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant... ...orld affairs, overthrew leaders, craved for energy to give to its race horse economy despite its havoc on the environment, and believed with certainty... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...

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