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The lights of science couldn't hold a candle
to Mary risen—at one miraculous stroke,
angel-wing'd, gorgeous as a jungle bird!

— Robert Lowell Life Studies (1959)

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If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.

Day by Day (1977)

We are like a lot of wild
spiders crying together,
but without tears.

For the Union Dead (1964)

No one like one's mother and father ever lived.

History (1973)

I will catch Christ with a greased worm.

Lord Weary's Castle (1946)

Your old-fashioned tirade—
loving, rapid, merciless—
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

Life Studies (1959)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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