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It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.

— Stephen R. Lawhead The Bone House (2011)

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“Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.”

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The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

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The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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