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You can have a revolution wherever you like except in a government office even were the world to come to an end you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Our nation is too different too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?'

God created man in His own image says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The style of God venerated in the church mosque or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God it won't love us in return.