"I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)"

-- Rex Stout

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“Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.”
“What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?”
“Sometimes people will ask a real "Why are you beating your wife?" question where there's some assumption built into it, and all you're trying to do is kind of re-contextualize it with some element of truth, and it comes across as incredibly defensive, or just really weird.”

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“To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.”
“I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.”
“A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.”
“Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.”
“The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.”

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