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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Gottfried Leibniz

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  It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

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