"Impiety, n.: Your irreverence toward my deity." — Ambrose Bierce

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without… — Francis Bacon
• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
• Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
• My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,… — John Henrik Clarke
• We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have… — John Henrik Clarke
• Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope… — John Henrik Clarke
• Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is… — Leonard Cohen
• The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason,… — Louis Agassiz
• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all… — Baron de Montesquieu
• Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess. — Pliny the Elder
• Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify. — Ovid

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