"One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek."

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“What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.”

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"Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to the gods. He stole their secrets."

— Albert Camus

Literature1913–1960

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"I have long thought that our vacant territory was the resource which, in some mode or other, was most applicable and adequate as a gradual cure for the portentous evil; without, however, being unaware…"

— James Madison

Politics1749–1812

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