in a vast and awesome universe.
-- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
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-Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
-have exhausted all other possibilities.
- -- W. Churchill
+[M]en and nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other
+alternatives.
+ -- Abba Ebban
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As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not
all that miraculous.
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-They say when you embark on a journey
-of revenge
-dig two graves.
-They underestimate me.
- -- a softer world #560
- http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560
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-I never meant to let you down.
-I thought for sure
-the attic lock would hold.
- -- a softer world #562
- http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562
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I made a bunch of stickers
to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
"If you are reading this,
-- a softer world #569
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569
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-I'm sorry about those late night emails.
-I only said those things because I was too drunk
-to be afraid.
- -- a softer world #579
- http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579
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6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2.
-- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_
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seem to smile"
-- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
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-"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is
-a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
- -- John Adams
+Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
+ -- John Adams (Letter to Edmund Jennings, 27 September 1782)