Quote by Samuel Johnson
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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God made man merely to hear some praise of what hed done on those Five Days. – Christopher Morley

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Creation

On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born. – Albert Camus

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Creation

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production — only to produce a race of bed-wetters! – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes

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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. – Remy de Gourmont

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Im a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and Ive always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as Im writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. – Quentin Tarantino

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Vision looks upward and becomes faith. – Stephen Samuel Wise

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. – Honore de Balzac

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