"To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur."

Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist

Truth, Miracles, Old, World

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"To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur."

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"Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

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