"He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

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“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”
“Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.”
“External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.”
“One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.”
“Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. â€œI have chosen you,â€ Jesus said, â€œyou have not chosen me.â€ We are not our own; we have been bought with a price. We have no rights, only responsibilities. Following Christ is not our initiative, merely our response, in obedience. Nothing works better to debunk the pretensions of choice than a conviction of calling. Once we have been called, we literally â€œhave no choice.”
“I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.”
“[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.”
“It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.”

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