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title: "3 Conviction Existence Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-darwin/another-source-of-conviction-in-the-existence-of-god-connected-with/)

[Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-darwin/)

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> [A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-ratzel/a-philosophy-of-the-history-of-the-human-race-worthy-of-its-name-must/)

[Friedrich Ratzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-ratzel/)

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> [I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kunitz/i-refuse-to-turn-to-theology-to-justify-the-life-or-redeem-it-there/)

[Stanley Kunitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kunitz/)

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