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You Sit At The Board And Suddenly Your Heart Leaps. Your Hand Trembles To Pick Up The Piece And Move It. But What Chess Teaches You Is That You Must Sit There Calmly And Think About Whether It's Really A Good Idea And Whether There Are Other, Better Ideas.

The World's Religions, For All Their Parochialism, Did Supply A Kind Of Consolation For This Great Ache. This Shattering Recognition Of Our Mortality Is At The Root Of Far More Mental Illness Than I Suspect Even Psychiatrists Are Aware.

Busy People Begrudge The Days Being Short. I Can No Longer Sit Back And Allow Communist Infiltration, Communist Indoctrination, Communist Subversion, And The International Communist Conspiracy To Sap And Impurify All Of Our Precious Bodily Fluids.

I Will Say That The God Concept Is At The Heart Of 2001 But Not Any Traditional, Anthromorphic Image Of God. I Don't Believe In Any Of Earth's Monotheistic Religions, But I Do Believe That One Can Construct An Intriguing Scientific Definition Of God, Once You Accept The Fact That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Stars In Our Galaxy Alone, That Each Star Is A Life-giving Sun And That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Galaxies In Just The Visible Universe.

It's A Mistake To Confuse Pity With Love.