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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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. – Samuel Johnson

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Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote. – Sir Muhammad Iqbal

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Its a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didnt consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. – Samuel Levenson

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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. – Henry Miller

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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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