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DEYTH BANGER The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER God made things from nothing, we are made by God, therefore, we are nothing.
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AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
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ALFRED NEWMAN We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish i...
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AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God ...
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STEPHEN KING Don't bruise the Foo!
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DESMOND TUTU A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they ar...
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IAN GOLD the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
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