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• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
  -- Henri-Frederic Amiel...
• We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.
  Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity....
• A belief is not true because it is useful. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
• In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)...
• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel...
• If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make mistakes next time.
  I'd relax, I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I been this trip....
• If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
  I would relax, I would limber up, I would be sillier than I have been this trip....