It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.