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To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create.

— James Oppenheim War and Laughter (1916)

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Man's the bad child of the universe.

War and Laughter (1916)

We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

War and Laughter (1916)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.

War and Laughter (1916)

Would you end war?
Create great Peace.

War and Laughter (1916)

Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?

War and Laughter (1916)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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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.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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