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    “...and while they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?””
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 26:21.

    “Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it’s much too painful.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. Captain Shepard (Kenneth More)

    “—the main jet
    Struggling aloft unti it seems at rest

    In the act of rising, until
    The very wish of water is reversed,”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)