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“Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.”

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Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

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God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.

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There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

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