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Siri, why does God allow suffering?

Veep

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"Crate." Veep, written by Simon Blackwell and Georgia Pritchett and Armando Iannucci, directed by Chris Addison, season 3, episode 9, Home Box Office and Dundee Productions, 2014.

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What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Allen Ginsberg

Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport

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Ginsberg, Allen. "Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport." The Fall of America: Poems of These States. City Lights Bookstore, 1973.

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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Michael Torke

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Torke, Michael. "Sayings of the Week." Observer, 23 Sept. 1990.

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What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

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Bramston, James. The Art of Politics. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729.

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Why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacities.

Daniel Defoe

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Defoe, Daniel. "Of Academies: An Academy for Women." An Essay Upon Projects. London: Tho. Cockerill, 1697.

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All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 1:20

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Corinthians 1:20).

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is of slight worth, as all life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life is a Dream

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. La vida es sueño [Life Is a Dream]. 1635, Madrid, Spain, act 2.

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2.

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Stanislaw Lec

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Lec, Stanislaw. Unkempt Thoughts, translated by Jacek Galazka. St. Martin's Press, 1962. Originally published as Myśli nieuczesane [Uncombed Thoughts]. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1957.

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Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

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Abse, Dannie. "Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station." Ask the Moon. Hutchinson, 2014.

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Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

Security

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Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart

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Murakami, Haruki. スプートニクの恋人 [Sputnik Sweetheart]. Kodansha, 1999.

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But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to our selves?

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 2, sect. 4.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 2, sect. 4.

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What must I do to be saved?

Acts 16:30

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 16:30).

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Is there no balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 8:22

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 8:22).

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What are days for?
Days are where we live.

Philip Larkin

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Larkin, Philip. "Days." The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, 1964, I. 1.

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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

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Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Admiral's Men, 1594, The Rose Theater, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

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