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• I felt like poisoning a monk. -- Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose.
• Regularity is unity, unity is godlike, only the devil is unchangeable. -- Richte
• He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it.
  Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating....
• There cannot be diversity in unity. -- Deng Ming-Dao
• But since life is cruel, to you and to me, here I am. -- Umberto Eco
• Spice is the variety of life.
• The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lxviii...
• All cats are NOT gray after midnight. Endless variety ...
• If variety = Spice/Life. Make mine milk.