"The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg."
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"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
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"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
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"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
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"Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it."
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"I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God."
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"By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source."
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"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
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"If God is everywhere, I had concluded, then He is in food. Therefore, the more I ate the godlier I would become. Impelled by this new religious fervor, I glutted myself like a fanatic."
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"Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun."
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"If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion."
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"If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?"
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"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
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"All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable."
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"Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get. But usually he didn't bother the Gods, and he hoped the Gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything."
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"God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things."
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