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“I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.”
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“What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.”
Source : Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the completed theory, including the establishing its validity. That is, he is not interested in the context of discovery, but in the context of justification.”
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“He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.”
Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
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“My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.”
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“Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.”
Source : William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”
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“Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.”
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“Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-”
