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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed he

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear thered be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. – Nadine Gordimer

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the minds eye only, fade out in sand. – Nadine Gordimer

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Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you dont get it here, you wont get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; heres the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell

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Heaven for climate, Hell for company. – James Barrie

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The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork. – Bible

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