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  How can we ever thank them? -- Edward Abbey...
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• Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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• Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
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• The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true
  by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful....
• Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. -- Seneca
• The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. -- Edward Gibbo