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- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the… — Mark Twain
- While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to… — Timothy Keller
- Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge… — Christine de Pizan
- Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the… — Matthieu Ricard
- Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night… — Shams Tabrizi
- The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such… — John Updike
- Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who… — Baltasar Gracian
- Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards… — Karl Popper
- Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they… — Desiderius Erasmus
- And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be… — Julian of Norwich
- Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along their way. He sent His Son, Jesus… — Henry B. Eyring