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Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation.
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Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives – trying to go home again.
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There’s a saying, ‘Every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown.’ Perhaps this is as it should be.
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They say a dream takes only a second or so, and yet in that second a man can live a lifetime.
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And fate, a laughing fate, a practical jokester with a smile that stretched across the stars, saw to it that they got their wish.
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men.
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For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own.
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Last stop on a long journey, as yet another human being returns to the vast nothingness that is the beginning and into the dust that is always the end.
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The most common ailment of all men, the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle.
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A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he’s ever wanted – and he’s going to have to live with it for eternity.
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Who discovered something about life; that it can be rich and rewarding and full of beauty, just like the music he played, if a person would only pause to look and to listen.
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The magic of a child’s smile, the magic of liking and being liked, the strange and wondrous mysticism that is the simple act of living.
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But it makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street?
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Odd how the real consorts with the shadows, how the present fuses with the past.
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A word to the wise now to the garbage collectors of the world, to the curio seekers, to the antique buffs, to everyone who would try to coax out a miracle from unlikely places.
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Because the old saying happens to be true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years hence, on this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out amongst the stars.
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In short, there’s nothing mightier than the meek.
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And if there’s any moral to it at all, let’s say that in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human heart.
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But the cure to some nightmares is not to be found in known medical journals.
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Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, the talent becomes a curse.
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We know that a dream can be real, but who ever thought that reality could be a dream?
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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.
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Some superstitions, kept alive by the long night of ignorance, have their own special power.
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According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative – and woman’s – to create their own particular and private hell.
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No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
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