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Even the gods cannot change history. -- Agathon (448-400 B.
C.) -- Quoted in Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk, VI, Ch. 2, 1139 b 10...
Even the greatest of whales is helpless in middle of desert.
Even the most boundless love can end. -- Rhett Butler, to Scarlet O'Hara, _Gone With The Wind_
Even the most primitive societies have an innate respect for the insane. -- The Motorcycle Boy
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fictio
he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fi...
Even the most wrinkled prune has a pit.
Even the music was nice. -- Yogi Berra (speaking of the opera "Tosca").
Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. -- Horace (65-8 BC) -- Ars Poetica, 359

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