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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. – Sir Isaac Newton

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

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Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian – and at once the world becomes explicable. – H. L. Mencken

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Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges

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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill

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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. – Eamon de Valera

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