"In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things."

-- Nicolaus Copernicus

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“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.”
“You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.”
“I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.”
“The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.”

Source : RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”
“Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company
“I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.”
“Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.”
“It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.”

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