"It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance."

-- John B. S. Haldane

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“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
“Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win.”
“Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.”
“Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.”
“Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.”

Source : "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", www.imdb.com. November 25, 1987.
“It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.”
“We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit.”
“The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.”

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