"Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words."

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“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”

“Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.”

“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”

“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”

“But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...”

“A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?”

Resonant Thoughts

"I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations."

— Adam Smith

Economics

#hope

"I hope anyone, especially Lee Bo himself, can provide relevant information."

— Leung Chun-ying

Politics

#hope

"The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may ha…"

— Carl Sagan

Science1934–1996

#life

"There is nothing reasonable about faith. Those two words mean completely opposite things. Putting them together creates an oxymoron, That’s why William Lyin’ Craig thought it would make a clever book …"

— Aron Ra

Politics1962

#faith