Quotes 161 till 180 of 267.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
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The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
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The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
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The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
Source: Cosmos (1980) 221 -
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.
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