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«I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn»
Author: Allen Ginsberg
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«I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
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calculate, heavenly, motion, The Madness
«Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ»
«I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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Prayer
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answered, Evening Prayer, evident, Father, fathering, heavenly, Heavenly Father, prayers, refused, strangely
«Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot»
«If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? / And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.»
«Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them»
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Religion
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disappointed, heavenly, Heavenly Father, monkey, The Monkey
«If the floor of this palace was a mosaic of diamonds and rubies, and if my bed was encased with rubies, and if heavenly beauties, their faces adorned with emeralds, tried to entice me with sensual gestures of love - seeing these, I might go astray and forget You, and Your Name would not enter into my mind.»
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