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• We think in generalities, we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
• ...but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity. -- Neil Pea
• Mongo only pawn... in game of life. -- Alex Karras in "Blazing Saddle
• Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
  -- Longfellow...
• The spaceship with its human cargo Speeds from star to blazing star.
  The captain, humming Handel's Largo, Wonders where the hell they are....
• Sir. You know I told you to go out and spend a lot of money on wedding presents.
  Well, apparently...(sees masses of gold finery and piles of glittering ornaments) Mmm?...
• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it.
  Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way....
• For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotio
  its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away....