"I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands."

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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t."

— Mark Twain

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"In God is my being, my I, my strength, my bliss, my desire. But this I that I often call so...in truth I no longer know what the I is, or the Mine, or desire, or the good, or bliss."

— Catherine of Genoa

Medicine1447–1510

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— Rowan Atkinson

Entertainment1955

#philosophy

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— L. Randall Wray

Economics1953

#justice