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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."

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