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    The Brahman’s virtue consists in doing, not right, but arbitrary things.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
    Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
    That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
    Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
    And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
    Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
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    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
    —David Ben Gurion (1886–1973)