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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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