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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."

"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."

"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."

"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
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