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You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
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The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
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I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you love a woman, you can dominate her. That's why lovers go on playing politics with each other, dominating, possessing; the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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The future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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