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• Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
  But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny....
• We start out loving our parents and end up hating them.
  Sometimes we learn to love them again, but we never forgive them....
• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
• My deeply held belief is that if a God of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God.
  We would be unappreciative of that gift ... if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves....
• We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), Huckleberry Fi...
• Homer: Dear Lord, thank You for this microwave bounty, even though we don't deserve it.
  I mean... our kids are uncontrollable hellions!...
• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
• Our lives are like a candle in the wind. Carl Sandburg
• No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.
  The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it....