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Quote by Hermann Hesse
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retain

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. – Hermann Hesse

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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. – Hermann Hesse

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Knowledge
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Hermann Hesse
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. – Hermann Hesse

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Death
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Hermann Hesse
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Faith
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I dont think its any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and manned up in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because Im not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. – Jimmy Carr

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Faith

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. Thats faith for you. Theres such a strong spirit here. – Daniel Libeskind

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Faith

Ive always had great faith in the Man Upstairs. – Wayne Newton

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Faith

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton

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Faith

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If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes… oh, wait a minute, he already does. – Author Unknown

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Computers

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Solitude

Our musics kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. – Jerry Cantrell

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Music

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. – Neil LaBute

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Women