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Sunday, June 08, 2003

�Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.�
- William Blake (1757 � 1827), English poet, engraver, painter and mystic: �The Marriage of Heaven and Hell�, c. 1790 � 1793.

�You can�t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.�
- William Somerset Maugham (1874 � 1965), English writer, dramatist and physician: �The Circle�, 1921.

�Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward � your destiny � are here and now.�
- Dag Hammaskj�ld (1905 � 1961), Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations: �Markings�, 1965.

�The best plans have always been wrecked by the narrow-mindedness of those who should carry them out.�
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 � 1956), German dramatist and poet: �Mother Courage and her Children�, 1941.


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