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— Peter de Noronha

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"You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be."

— Max Lucado

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"“My religion,” said Ms. Brown, “is to try to falsify all hypotheses."

— Orson Scott Card

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— Orson Scott Card

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