"Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand."

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"To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own."

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

Education1916–1993

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"He will come again with His glorious Presence to judge the quick and the dead; no longer flesh, nor yet without a body, according to the laws which He alone knows of a more godlike body."

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Religion

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— Lewis Black

Entertainment1948

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— Erwin Schrödinger

Science1887–1961

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