"A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer."

-- Jeffrey Bernard

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“That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever”
“God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.”
“It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.”
“Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.”

Source : "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.
“As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.”
“It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.”
“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

Source : Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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