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Anyone who plays himself at chess, and loses, has to be a bit peculiar.”
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Perhaps the truth was that Hell wasn’t a physical location; it was an idea that could be summoned into being. Hell had been created countless times before, from the Crusaders’ massacre of Jerusalem to Stalin’s “hunger-extermination” of seven million Ukrainians; from reeking, disease-ridden slave ships bound for New Orleans to the systemized horror of Auschwitz; from Lieutenant Calley to the Khmer Rouge. There was almost an equation to it. Hell was born when some decided others weren’t people.”
― Afterlife
― Afterlife
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
― The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
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