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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.: Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.: Peggy Joyce
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow.": Mike Kellen
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.: F.W. Lawvere
You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.: Benjamin Jowett
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.: Max Frisch, `Homo Faber'
The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.: Jeremy Rifkin
God is love, but get it in writing.: Gypsy Rose Lee (1914 - 1970)
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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