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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
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I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
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What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
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