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 For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.  The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence. There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. - Talmud One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun. If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. - Cicero Epitaph, n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?" - Macaulay So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. 
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