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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion. --Albert EinsteinNo Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as \'what a man does with his
solitude.\'
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we
should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -Albert Camus

Whatever time I\'ve got left now belongs to the Big Fella Upstairs.
Ronald Reagan