"This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new."

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Clifford Truesdell

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“Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.”
“In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.”
“Whatâ€™s so civil about war anyway?”
“There has never been such a silence.”
“I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc
“We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.”
“An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.”

Source : Jaroslav Pelikan (2014). “The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.8, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.”

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