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We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

Science Itself Is A Humanist In The Sense That It Doesn't Discriminate Between Human Beings, But It Is Also Morally Neutral. It Is No Better Or Worse Than The Ethos With And For Which It Is Used.

The So-called Lessons Of History Are For The Most Part The Rationalizations Of The Victors. History Is Written By The Survivors.

In Our Culture We Make Heroes Of The Men Who Sit On Top Of A Heap Of Money, And We Pay Attention Not Only To What They Say In Their Field Of Competence, But To Their Wisdom On Every Other Question In The World.

Some Of The More Fatuous Flag-waving Americans Are In Danger Of Forgetting That You Can't Extract Gratitude As You Would Extract A Tooth; That Unless Friendship Is Freely Given, It Means Nothing And Less Than Nothing.