“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.”
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
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ruler on board.
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