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“Let me conclude by saying, in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and dissapointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted..”

Here, here! My old boss had a saying framed on his wall that said, “Success is 95% Perseverance”

“The power of one was the courage to remain separate, to think through to the truth and not to be beguiled by convention…”

More gold!

“As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic,is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.”

Love this!

Pastor Mulvey “was able to build up some pretty impressive arguments against the perfidy of the Catholic Church”

Perfidy = noun = the state of being deceitful and untrustworthy, eg. “it was an example of his perfidy"

“The photograph captured the exact moment when I understood with conviction that racism is a primary force of evil designed to destroy good men.”

“Peekay,’ he said, ‘in this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for a man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than the explanation.’