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This book is written for middle and high-schoolers with little or no knowledge of basic scientific principals. If that's you, then this text may serve you well. However, for those of us with a strong scientific background, this is, possibly, worse th
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“Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: ‘Would it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say: ‘Would it were morning!’” I have not
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Luther wondered at this verse as do I. Its one of the most astute verses in the Bible.
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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
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“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
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“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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