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Certitude Leads To Violence. This Is A Proposition That Has An Easy Application And A Difficult One. The Easy Application Is To Ideoologues, Dogmatists, And Bullies--people Who Think That Their Rigtness Justifies Them In Imposing On Anyone Who Does Not Happen To Suscribe To Their Particular Ideology, Dogma Or Notion Of Turf. If The Conviction Of Rightness Is Powerful Enough, Resistance To It Will Be Met, Sooner Or Later By Force. There Are People Like This In Every Sphere Of Life, And It Is Natural To Feel That The World Would Be A Better Place Without Them!

For My Part I Think It Is A Less Evil That Some Criminals Should Escape, Than That The Government Should Play An Ignoble Part.

From Forty To Fifty A Man Must Move Upward, Or The Natural Falling Off In The Vigor Of Life Will Carry Him Rapidly Downward.

We Are All Sentenced To Capital Punishment For The Crime Of Living, And Though The Condemned Cell Of Our Earthly Existence Is But A Narrow And Bare Dwelling-place, We Have Adjusted Ourselves To It, And Made It Tolerably Comfortable For The Little While We Are To Be Confined In It.

The Noblest Service Comes From Nameless Hands; And The Best Servant Does His Work Unseen.