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Ovid

"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."

Ovid, Roman Poet
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"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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David Foster Wallace, American Writer
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer
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