"You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone."

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Source : William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

William Mackergo Taylor

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“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
“Why didn't I just walk away? Oh right, because I'm a idiot.”
“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”
“When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.”
“I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.”

Source : "Answer Man: Gio Gonzalez talks getting traded, Cy Young, Strasburg shutdown and the Chevy Geo". Interview with David Brown, www.yahoo.com. October 6, 2012.
“Everything ends this way in France â€” everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs â€” everything is a pretext for a good dinner.”
“I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.”

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“Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?”

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