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• Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. -- David Grayso
• A nation's advance as a civilized society can be properly guaged by the manner in which it treats the poor and the elderly - often the same people.
• If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance
  let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?...
• Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself." -- Israel Zanguill (1864-1929)
• Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from abroad
  we are bringing home one unassailable fact -- [terrorism is] a crime by any civilized standard, committed against innocent people, away from the scene of political conflict, and must be dealt with as a crime....
• The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history.
• Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. -- David Hull
• Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. -- Joan Ganz Cooney
• Civilized people need love for full sexual satisfaction.