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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Heaven

"Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases."

Men Heaven Track
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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
Heaven

"Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven."

Heaven Rewards One Thing
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up."

Names Heaven Doctrine
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom."

Soul Heaven Kingdoms
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it."

Two Law Heaven
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness."

Ideas Heaven Giving Up
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go."

Years Names Heaven
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels."

Men Heaven Angel
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth."

Heaven Earth Hero
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Heaven

"The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus."

Ideas Jesus Heaven
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet."

Lying May Heaven
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Heaven

"Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens."

Heaven Son Beauty
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Stephen Kendrick Musician, Producer
Heaven

"Jesus communicated parables to the secular people around him and he used stories that were very relevant to their lives, and He was taking heaven's truth and packaging it in an earthly context."

People Jesus Heaven
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