Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
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Heywood Broun Quote
“The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.”
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