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“The mathematicians and engineers may have disavowed the existence of God, but they placed themselves in a celestial role of giving life to a pile of inorganic material. And it changed them.” quote by Franklin Foer — Download Open image

““The mathematicians and engineers may have disavowed the existence of God, but they placed themselves in a celestial role of giving life to a pile of inorganic material. And it changed them.””

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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

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For me the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

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