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It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not ↗

— A.G. Phillips

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Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. ↗

— Miriam Darnell

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Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed. ↗

— R.N. Prasher

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When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own. ↗

— William Coperthwaite

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The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out. ↗

— Neal Asher

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Where men can't live gods fare no better. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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If there were no thunder, men would have liitle fear of lightning. ↗

— Jules Verne

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If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#blindness #blindness-of-man #damnation #damned #faust

If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this. ↗

— Jaggi Vasudev

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We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices... ↗

— Woody Allen

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