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"Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts and chosen Divinities - and we should not fail to see that the terms are appropriate, if anything too kind."
"In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful."
"There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders."
"Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane."
"Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture."
"This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'"
"My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity."
""He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand.""
"Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity."
"I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do."
