"No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile."

-- Mark Helprin

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“It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so, it would be no argument against the absolute sceptic, inasmuch as he does not admit that no contradictory propositions are true. Indeed, it would be impossible to move such a man, for his scepticism consists in considering every argument and never deciding upon its validity; he would, therefore, act in this way in reference to the arguments brought against him.”
“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.”
“There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'”
“Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
“Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.”
“[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.”

Source : "Iranian Leader Urges Destruction of Israel". The Spokesman-Review, January 01, 2000.
“The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.”
“Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.65

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