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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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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Time
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Samuel Johnson
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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Apathy
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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. – Alfonso X

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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

All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all. – Cecil Frances Alexander

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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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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. – Clifford Geertz

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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. – John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of Jo

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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. – Jeff Goodell

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Ive got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! Im from the South – Tennessee, to be exact – and down there, were all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! – Miley Cyrus

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