"So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?"

-- Stephen Hawking

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“In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.”

Source : "Reid to resign with Blair". www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.
“Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.”

Source : Keigo Higashino (2011). “The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel”, p.219, Macmillan
“This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so.”

Source : Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.39, TAN Books
“Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.”
“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.”
“Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.”
“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.”
“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”

Source : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press

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