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• We dedicate this book to our fellow citizens who, for love of truth
  take from their own wants by taxes and gifts, and now and then send forth one of themselves as dedicated servant, to forward the search into the mysteries and marvelous simplicities of this strange and beautiful Universe, Our home....
• Of all the passions that possess mankind, The love of novelty rules most the mind
  In search of this, from realm to realm we roam; Our fleets come fraught with ev'ry folly home....
• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea...
• Bart: Why the crap do we have to go to church anyway?
  Marge: You just answered your own question with that commode mouth....
• Bart: Why the crap do we have to go to church anyway?
  Marge: You just answered your own question with that commode mouth....
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam.
  The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home....
• People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
  -- Norman Cousi...