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Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God.

— Jean Rostand Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)

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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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