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In The View Of Such Harmony In The Cosmos Which I, With My Limited Human Mind, Am Able To Recognize, There Are Yet People Who Says There Is No God. But What Makes Me Really Angry Is That They Quote Me For Support Of Such Views. (the Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, Page 214)

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In The View Of Such Harmony In The Cosmos Which I, With My Limited Human Mind, Am Able To Recognize, There Are Yet People Who Says There Is No God. But What Makes Me Really Angry Is That They Quote Me For Support Of Such Views. (the Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, Page 214)

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