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" Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. "

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" America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible. "

" The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. "