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God, I look awful.
(Blake Edwards (b. 1922), director, screenwriter. Amanda (Ellen Barkin), Switch, looking at Steve's corpse, the body she used to inhabit. (1991).)
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It feels good because God has power and if one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is.
(Michael Mann, U.S. screenwriter. Hannibal Lechtor (Brian Cox), Manhunter, describing to FBI agent Will Graham the motivation behind many a killer (1986).
Lechtor was also a featured character in Silence of the Lambs. Manhunter was adapted from the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.)
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For man proposes, but God disposes.
(Thomas ΰ Kempis (c. 1380-1471), German monk, mystic. The Imitation of Christ, pt. 1, ch. 19 (written c. 1426, published 1486).)
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For man proposes, but God disposes.
(Thomas ΰ Kempis (c. 1380-1471), German monk, mystic. The Imitation of Christ, pt. 1, ch. 19 (written c. 1426, published 1486).)
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
(Francis Picabia (1878-1953), French painter, poet. repr. In Yes No: Poems and Sayings, ed. Rιmy Hall (1990). "Sayings," vol. 2 (1978).)
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Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 586-8, Dramatis Personae (1864).)
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Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
(John Flavel (1630-1691), British evangelist, author. A Faithful and Ancient Account of Some Late and Wonderful Sea Deliverances (c. 1680).)
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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
(Robert Runcie (b. 1921), British ecclesiastic, Archbishop of Canterbury. sermon, July 26, 1982, at the Falkland Islands Thanksgiving Service, St. Paul's Cathedral, London.)
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