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If you pride yourself with your science, then you must realize that you have no merit; science is a gift that God has granted you. Thus do not acknowledge it in a way that angers the Highest, because he could erase it from your head through an illness of some sort.

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There are mobile objects and stationary objects, but there is neither motion nor staticness.

If you attended (a study session) strictly adopt three attitudes; there is no fourth.

Compare yourself, for wealth, status and health to those lower than you. For faith, science, and virtue, compare yourself to those who are higher than you.

Whosoever rises above things of this world, in front of which you kneel is much stronger than you.

The Earth is spherical despite what is popularly believed … the proof is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth.

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