“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”
Henri Poincare
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What one has to do usually can be done. -Roosevelt, Eleanor
What one has to do usually can be done. -Roosevelt, Eleanor
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. -Rostand, Jean
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Civilization — a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. -Malcolm Muggeridge
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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow