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• Those cave paintings are wonderful, but like everything we know, they are not too wonderful to be true.
  It is their reality that gives them wonder, and while there will never come a time when some of us will not wish for more than we can have, the happiest of us will wait confidently for other tangible finds....
• Most of us can do more than we think we can, but usually do less than we think we have.
• It is more dignified for me to tell you that we are moving in cycles than to come right out and tell you the honest truth - we are running around in circles!
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...
• The following appeared in a memo from the president of a company that builds and sells new homes in Steel City.
  "Over the past five years, the population of Steel City has increased by more than 20 percent, and family incomes in Steel City have risen much faster than the national average....
• Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.
  ' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy....
• In what can only be described as a surprise move, God has officially announced His candidacy for the U.
  S. presidency. During His press conference today, the first in over 4000 years, He is quoted as saying, "I think I have a chance for the White House if I can just get my campaign pulled together in time....
• WAR I think Frankie Goes To Hollywood had it right.
  Put the leaders - the actual people who've insulted each others' grandmothers or whatever - in the ring, and let them beat the shit out of each other....
• If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. -- Voltaire