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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
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