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“Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.” quote by Walter M. Miller, Jr — Download Open image

“Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.”

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The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains…

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…to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

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The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.

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The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly…

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What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate,…

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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.

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But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it…

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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

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