The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds. - Plutarch

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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Plutarch

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

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A healer of others, himself diseased.

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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

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Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

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Rose Macaulay

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?

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Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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James Madison

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

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Paul McCartney

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that. " And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that. " Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

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Josh McDowell

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

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