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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: May 1
Died: 1955
Died: April 10
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The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
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Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.
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Faith has need of the whole truth.
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The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
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