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If life were to be found on a planet, then it would also have been contaminated by original sin and would require salvation |
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. |
If there are no miracles then we need to find another word for the existence of life – the existence of you and me – on earth. Call it a gift from spirit (God or god in whatever form works for you), serendipity, happenstance or plain good fortune. I invite you to look at your life as if it were a miracle. To treat your life in any other way seems to me to be a terrible waste of your unique presence on this planet. |
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. |
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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. |
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If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second. |
If you live your life in the past, you waste the life you have to live. |