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"I can conceive of no greater mistake, more disastrous in the end to religion if not to society, than that of trying to make charity do the work of justice."  William Jewett Tucker in response to Andrew Carnegie's essay, The "Gospel of Wealth."

What I'd like written on my tombstone

Oliver Sacks said of his friend Freeman Dyson - "He feels that it is rather important not only to be not orthodox, but to be subversive, and he's done that all his life."

Mexico so far from God and so close to the United States

Matthew Hollister in today's New York Times