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• In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero
  o be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing....
• Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
  -- John Henry Newma...
• There is but one thought greater than that of the universe, and is the thought of its Maker.
  -- John Henry Newma...
• There are but two ways, the way of Rome and the way of atheism.
  -- John Henry Newman (1801-1890) "Apologia pro Vita Sua" (1864)...
• It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
  John Henry Newman (1801-1890) "The Idea of a University...
• How many lexicographers -- does it take to change a lightbulb?
  Two. One to change it and one to protest that he should have changed it to "light bulb"....
• All perfect republics are perfect nonsense. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion.
  We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
  -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryde...
• We are ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
  -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- On Christian doctrine (396-427)...