People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
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The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be ... may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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