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“The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.”

Universe Existence Mystery Conscious Corners Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?”

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Author:Daniel Gilbert

“The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.”

Past Moving Mystery Target Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Edna Buchanan

“The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.”

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Author:Kathleen Madigan

“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.”

Humans Seems Secret Brain Mystery Remains Surprise Human Brain Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.”

Said Mystery Clergymen Unsolved Mysteries

Book:The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story

Source: The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story

“…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”

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Author:Kate Chopin