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• We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should govern their spiritual horizo
  or Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major prophet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God....
• We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should govern their spiritual horizo
  or Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major prohpet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God....
• The aristocrat is right in that only a few people in any society make a real difference
  but the democrat is more deeply right when he insists that we cannot predict where such valuable people are coming from and therefore have an obligation to keep all lines open....
• Quote #159 The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, "What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?
  and my answer must at once be, "It is no use." There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever....
• Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fi
  and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money....
• At least we'll be away from all this openness. No, this is too strange for us.
  We are creatures of outer space. Soon, we will be safe in the comforting closeness of walls....
• Peter's Perfect People Palliative Each of us is a mixture of good qualities and some (perhaps) not-so-good qualities.
  In considering our fellow people we should remember their good qualities and realize that their faults only prove that they are, after all, human....
• And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions.
  This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive....
• Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
  A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part shall be removed from the current position as a result of failure to perform previously agreed upon duties, i....