“Everything is Valuable only at 2 Times:
1: Before Getting It. &
2: After Losing It.”
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1: Before Getting It. &
2: After Losing It.”
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“Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.”
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“Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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