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• The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God!
  hou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me...
• Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.
• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard.
  They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. -- Barrow...
• I err, therefore I exist. -- St. Augustine
• BROTHER MAYNARD: Armaments Chapter Two Verses Nine to Twenty One.
  ANOTHER MONK: And St. Attila raised his hand grenade up on high saying O Lord bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy....
• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• And St. Attila raised the hand grenade up on high saying "O Lord bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bi
  in thy mercy" and the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orang-utangs and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and....
• In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes, in order to make us understand at last that we ought to believe only in Him, and not in man.
• You may believe you understand what you thought I said, but have you ever realised that what I said was not what you thought?