'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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