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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. -- Chinese Proverb
The beginnings and the endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -- John Galsworthy
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions.
-- Hacker's Law...
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
-- Max Born, physici...
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
-- Charles K. Ogden, The Meaning...
The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
The bell has a pure sweet mellow sound, and is tuned to middle c.
The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Night Thoughts, Night i, Line 55...

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