“ I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible. ”
- James Otis- Copy
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“ And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
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“ On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
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“ We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty… this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
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“ Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand… ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms — this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness… ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness… ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences. ”
- Swami Brahmananda- Copy
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“ It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors… ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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