Truths kindle light for truths. - Lucretius

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More often you see Argentine fighters doing big things on a major stage. To be associated with those guys is really an honor and it's great to see so many people from my culture do big things in the sport.

Lucretius

Truths kindle light for truths.

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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.

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. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.

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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

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. . . the exchange of students. . . should be vastly expanded. . . Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.

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