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In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

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Robert Boyle

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

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God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

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. . . even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

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The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

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The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

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I imagine if you had built the Newton Memorial outside Paris. . . it would have undoubtedly shown the violence of 1870 and 1914 and 1942 and 1945 - even 1968! Consider building a vast cube of stone merely to register the effects of violence - marked and dated as an indictment.

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Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.

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