"History shows you don't know what the future brings."

-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

“We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.”
“I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world â€” Death is only an incident in Life.”

Source : "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.
“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
“Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”
“There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.”
“Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me... Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief, And got his ***** directin' traffic in the heat for a week.”
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
“There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.”

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