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Eleven Things that Fill Me with Awe
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.howtolive.org/awe.html"><I>The unimaginable vastness of what exists.</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.howtolive.org/awe.html"><I>That the properties of the universe are conducive (perhaps even almost optimally conducive) to life. </I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.howtolive.org/awe.html"><I>That the apparently mindless process of evolution can, and even tends to, result in forms of increasing complexity, beauty, and value. </I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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