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I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
Norman Douglas
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Norman Douglas
Age: 83 †
Born: 1868
Born: December 8
Died: 1952
Died: February 9
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
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You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
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