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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ↗

— Karl Marx

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The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ↗

— George Boole

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