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The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."

— John Templeton The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio (2002)

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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now.

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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