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“ Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself. ”

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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

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I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

~ Marilynne Robinson