"God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas."

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— Augusten Burroughs

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— W. Somerset Maugham

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"Chris, I believe with all my heart that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them. … How he did that, I’ll ask him about some day."

— Mike Pence

Politics1959

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