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• Serenity through viciousness.
• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a mome
  cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity....
• As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. -- Erich Fromm
• There is serenity in Chaos. Seek ye the Eye of the Hurricane.
• Quote #572 As the fading light of a dying day filtered through the window blinds, Roger stood over his victim with a smoking .
  45, surprised at the serenity that filled him after pumping six slugs into the bloodless tyrant that mocked him day after day, and then he shuffled out of the office with one last look back at the shattered computer terminal lying there like a silicon armadillo left to rot on the information superhighway....
• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
  -- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer (1934)...
• God grant me the serenity to fix the bugs I find, and to call the rest features.
• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Morituri Salutamu...