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In the face of real danger Elak forgot the gods and drew his rapier. Prayers, he had found, would not halt a dagger's blow or a strangler's hands.

— Henry Kuttner The Spawn Of Dagon (1938)

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When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Stephen Court in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)

I never understood the ultimate answer. That was beyond me.

The Time Axis (1949)

Love is a false synonym for propagation, as the soul is a wish fulfillment creation growing out of self-preservation.

No Boundaries (1955)

A casual eye might have seen nothing extraordinary in Wade as he moved lithely across the meadow toward the Thunderbug.

People seem to like new things—if they weren’t too new, if they didn’t seem to point the way to Change.

Bypass to Otherness (1961)

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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.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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