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At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.
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when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.
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Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame?
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I was not simply tired of the world's iniquity. I was tired of greed in particular and the ostentatious display of wealth that characterizes our times, and the justifications for despoiling the earth and injuring our fellow man.
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What we do is punish the people who are available," she said."
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symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.
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But the past is the past, and you don't get it back.
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Jolie Blon," the most haunting and unforgettable lament I have ever heard."
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I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are.
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The word criminal is more an emotional than legal term. Go to any U.S. post office and view the faces on the wanted posters. Like Dick Tracy caricatures, they stare out of the black-and-white photographs often taken in late-night booking rooms--unshaved, pig snouted, rodent eyed, hare lipped, reassuring us that human evil is always recognizable and that consequently we will never be its victim. But
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