"For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand."

-- Clarice Lispector

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“Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.”
“Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2012). “The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln”, p.45, Vintage
“I just want people in America to know that Oklahoma is a great place to live. You know, just like states have wildfires in California, or earthquakes or they may have other tornadoes in other areas of the - of the country, you know, this is really a great, great state. Our economy is doing beautifully, and the people are wonderful.”

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“I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of us. Those parts of us that donâ€™tÂ functionÂ well. Those parts of us that are sad or depressedâ€”not every day. They can really use baseball. ItÂ isn'tÂ just the child in a wheelchair or the shut-in senior citizen listening to the radio that needs the game. Thereâ€™s part of us, part of everybody whoâ€™s a baseball fan, who needs the game at that level.”
“It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.”
“I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.”
“Finance is a slave's word.”
“You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.”

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