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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin

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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. – John Calvin

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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. – John Calvin

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. – John Calvin

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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein

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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. – Clifford D. Simak

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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. – Groucho Marx

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. – G. K. Chesterton

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Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. – John Hendrick Bangs

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In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. – Steve Wozniak

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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher. – Morihei Ueshiba

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The happiness of ones own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to ones own happiness, the happiness of others. – Paramahansa Yogananda

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