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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
William P. Young
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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Paul Young
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Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
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