Pope Innocent II

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    Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)