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• It's so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the Devil when he is the only explanation of it.
• It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
  -- Ronald Knox, "Let Dons Deligh...
• Fortune's Rules for Memo Wars: #2 Given the incredible advances in sociocybernetics and telepsychology over the last few yea
  we are now able to completely understand everything that the author of an memo is trying to say....
• SMILEY |:-O (no explanation given)
• How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
  -- Katherine Mansfield...
• When a man says, "Get thee behind me, Satan," he's probably ashamed to have even the devil see what he's up to.
• Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc.
  for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in....