Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono
U2
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Mordicai Gerstein
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Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.
Baruch Spinoza
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Bono
U2
