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He was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth.He doubted the existence of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

—Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl

Yet her conception of God was certainly not orthodox. She felt towards Him as she might have felt towards a glorified sanitary engineer; and in some of her speculations she seems hardly to distinguish between the Deity and the Drains.

—Strachey, (Giles) Lytton

Ma¤  s que una costumbre, parece como un conjuro para una divinidad que todos desconocemos, que al reunirse varios cubanos†se permanece en un silencio de suspensio¤  n, hasta que se oye una voz cualquiera que dice o canta algo, que no tiene relacio¤  n con la convocatoria para la reunio¤ n .

—Lezama Lima,Jose¤

How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride.

—Rochdale

Prosperity is onlyaninstrumentto be used, not a deity to be worshipped. 236

—Coolidge, (John) Calvin