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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers.""

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent."

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James Parton Biographer, Historian
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"To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings."

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Jawaharlal Nehru Politician, Prime Minister
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"It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence."

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