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"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."
"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
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"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."
"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."
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