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Live simply that others might simply live.

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Happiness is a state of activity.

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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

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The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school

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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

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Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.

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