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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. (Paul Erdos)