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• Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may.
• The agreement of so many kinds of animals in a certain common structure
  which seems to be fundamental not only in their skeletons, but also in the arrangement of the other parts - so that a wonderfully simple typical form, by the shortening and lengthening of some parts, and by the suppression and development of others, might be able to produce an immense variety of species - allows a ray of hope, however faint, to enter our minds, that here perhaps some result may be obtained, by the application of the principle of the mechanism of nature (without which there can be no natural science in general)....
• Misfortunes always enter a door left open for them.
• Our rights remain rights only as long as we have the prudence not to test them -- Mark Twai
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
  Albert Einstei...
• Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the most time annihilates reason and leaves our whole organization one lacerated
  mangled heart- is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love....
• O Lord, grant that we may always be right, for Thou knowest we will never change our minds.
• Kent: But there's already one big winner: Our state school system, which gets fully half the profits from the library.
  Skinner: [talking with his teachers] Just think what we can buy with that money....
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...