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Let us cross the river, and rest under the trees.

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I have tried so hard to do the right.

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So little done--so much to do.

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Put out the light.

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I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

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How is the Empire?

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The secret of being boring is to say everything.

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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

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Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

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