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title: "9 Whence Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/omar-khayy-m/drink-for-you-know-not-whence-you-came-nor-why-drink-for-you-know-not/)

[Omar Khayyam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/omar-khayy-m/)

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> [Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/damn-you-villains-who-are-you-and-from-whence-came-you/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-gibbs/emotional-life-grows-out-of-an-area-of-the-brain-called-the-limbic/)

[Nancy Gibbs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-gibbs/)

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> [Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-hiferding/value-is-consequently-the-necessary-theoretical-starting-point-whence/)

[Rudolf Hiferding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-hiferding/)

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> [Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenkin-lloyd-jones/whence-then-did-the-cathedral-derive-its-power-clearly-here-it-took/)

[Jenkin Lloyd Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenkin-lloyd-jones/)

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> [Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-heindel/music-is-intangible-and-ephemeral-but-it-comes-from-the-home-world-of/)

[Max Heindel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-heindel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ef/max-heindel-9366_being_music-is-intangible-and-ephemeral-but-it_384740.png)

> [Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-ferguson/like-the-winds-that-we-come-we-know-not-whence-and-blow-whither/)

[Adam Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-ferguson/)

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> [Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-barrow/whence-it-is-somewhat-strange-that-any-men-from-so-mean-and-silly-a/)

[Isaac Barrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-barrow/)

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> [Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-bohme/love-is-higher-than-the-highest-love-is-greater-than-the-greatest-yea/)

[Jakob Bohme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-bohme/)

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