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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. the entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this." »Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
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"[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit." »Battaille
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"Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesn't play dice with the universe because the universe doesn't need him. the craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point." »Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)
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"You are a child of the universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." »Max Ehrmann
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"I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe." »Gene Roddenberry
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"A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."" »Stephen Crane
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"A man said to the universe 'Sir, I exist' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'" »Stephen Crane
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"universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"However infinite the universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? the slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." »Unknown
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." »Rich Cook
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"In this vast universe, we are condemned to feel tiny; megalomaniac is the one who cannot feel the true dimensions of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"the universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. the universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small." »Emil Wiechert
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"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." »Buddha
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"A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! the day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." »Frank Zappa
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"the wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace." »Maitri Upanishads
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"the key to your universe is that you can choose." »Carl Frederick
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"You have to believe that the universe will provide." »Steve Crosby
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"You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself." »Deepak Chopra
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"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." »Ray Bradbury
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe." »Mel Brooks
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"there's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." »Aldous Huxley
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"What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable." »Albert Einstein
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"the universe is a philosophical abyss." »Kedar Joshi
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