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Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

— Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

He wanted so much to ask, and he dared so little to know.

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)

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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)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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