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...Julian calendar of 365 days, 3) brought France into the 'community of nations and fixed the civilization of the Mediterranean world into the mold which still contains it. The dagger-wielding son of his onetime mistress to whom he gasped "Et tu, Brute" may have been the noblest, but Caius Julius Caesar was certainly the biggest Roman of them...
...Albert Einstein, who often said he could not accept the doctrine of immortality of the soul, traveled the rim of mystery and at times, he admitted, it made him feel close to God. "I assert," he once said, "that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force . . . My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds...
...television falls into two categories, said Pope. One is the airing of sermons, services and music, and it is occasionally effective, as in the case of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. "But music designated as religious ranges from the syncopated nonsense of Jane Russell and her confederates to the noblest arias of the human spirit. I suppose you pay your money and take your choice, but let us not designate it all as religious, or even as music...
...Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used to be to look like Tom Mix. The Good Families of Walnut Creek tolerate these goings-on as long as Jack remembers that there are two kinds of folks: those who make the laws and those who obey them. Then one hot dawn Jack finds the nymphomaniac daughter...
When Nevada became the Union's 36th state, the bonanzas petered out and Virginia City became a ghost town. Its weekly's noblest achievement probably came at news of the Union victory over the South. For three days the Enterprise published nothing, not even the victory news. Writes Author Beebe: "Its staff, from owner to the least apprentice, was dissolved in [a] universal sea of whisky...