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“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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