"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."

-- Phyllis McGinley

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“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.”
“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
“Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.”
“In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.”
“I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.”
“What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.”
“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
“It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.”

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