“They belonged to that futile, desolate, and forsaken horde who felt that all will be well with their lives, that all the power they lack themselves will be supplied, and all the anguish, fury, and unrest, the confusion and the dark damnation of man's soul can magically be healed if only they eat bran for breakfast.”
Of Time and the River (1935)
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Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 10 “The Rose-Garden” (p. 146)

“Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.”
Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
Diet for a New America, 1991 documentary film ( visible https://archive.org/details/DietForANewAmerica at Internet Archive)

Interview with Olivia Bannock at the Toronto International Film Festival, on the subject of her work with Anurag Kashyap, in That Girl in Yellow Boots, for myETVmedia with Kalki Koechlin (28 September 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1z-_AJiCVE

Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers

Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Context: Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but, under nature, everything belongs to all — that is, they have authority to claim it for themselves. But, under dominion, where it is by common law determined what belongs to this man, and what to that, he is called just who has a constant will to render to every man his own, but he, unjust who strives, on the contrary, to make his own that which belongs to another.