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• For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form, for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country.
  And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world, men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it....
• Scripture does not explain things by their secondary causes, but only narrates them in the order and style which has most power to move men, and especially uneducated men, to devotions.
  ... Its object is not to convince the reason, but to attract and lay hold of the imagination....
• Young men and young women may work systematically six days in the week and rise fresh in the morning, but let them attend modern dances for only a few hours each evening and see what happens.
  The Waltz, Polka, Gallop and other dances of the same kind will be disastrous in their effects to both sexes....
• It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered
  never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb....
• Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design.
  Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver....
• Brian Kernighan has an automobile which he helped design.
  Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas guage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver....
• Quote #96 Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design.
  Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver....