Since no one is perfect,

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

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All true wealth is biological.

All true wealth is biological.

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...tests are a gift. And

...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

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The will to be stupid

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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The dead cannot cry out

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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His mother had often said,

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

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I am who I choose

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.

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Our children change us…whether they

Our children change us…whether they live or not.

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What you are is a

What you are is a question only you can answer.

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There are always survivors at

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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