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He has no belief—faith is beneath his dignity—but he enjoys the designed madness of religion.

— Ian McDonald The Dervish House (2010)

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Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

River of Gods (2006)

His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.

River of Gods (2006)

It is an easy, and terrible, mistake to make, to think your will is God’s will.

Winning (1990)

I do not trust the memory. Imaginings too easily become memories, memories imaginings.

Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan (2015)

The elephants fight but the rats go about their business.

River of Gods (2006)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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