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• Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the posession of things which cannot be shared.
• Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.
  I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian systems or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were too simple....
• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. -- A. Einstei
• My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
  J. B. S. Haldane [essay, 'Possible Worlds', 1927]...
• All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children.
  All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function....
• A university is a place where men of principle outnumber men of honor. -- Ernest May
• Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
  -- Andrew Jackson The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country....
• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• An article in the Spring 1990 issue of Arlo Guthrie's Rolling Blunder Review describing the risks of reading RBR, concludes with the flawlessly logical sentence
  "In other words, if our readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding....