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• There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.
• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it.
  Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way....
• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
  -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad...
• May you travel the world over just one step ahead of the police.
• Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Cleveland.
• Diane, it struck me again earlier in this morning. There are two things that continue to trouble me and I'm speaking now not only as an agent of the bureau, but also as a human being
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• It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. --Napoleon I