"If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?"

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“Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.”

“As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.”

“Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.”

“Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.”

“It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.”

“Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.”

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"God is a cloud from which rain fell."

— Dejan Stojanovic

Literature1959

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"Primitive man... rushes to the satisfactory conclusion that that power must be itself infinite; that he, man, is not altogether finite, and so he constructs a doctrine of the soul and its immortality.…"

— Karl Pearson

Mathematics1857–1936

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"Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi poet, says, "Out beyond the worlds of right-doings and wrong-doings, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to …"

— Zainab Salbi

Social Activism1969

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"When this response reached Croesus, it afforded him far more pleasure than anything else the oracle had told him, because he was sure that a mule would never replace a man as the Persian king, and tha…"

— Herodotus

History-483–-424

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