"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."

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"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."

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"The material of life is made from time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It is a high spiritual truth that we create with our judgements."

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"There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"To learn, we must first listen."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free."

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"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."

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"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."

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"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."

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"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."

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"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

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"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man."

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"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."

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"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."

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"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."

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