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• Were there no women, men might live like gods. -- Thomas Dekke
• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
  -- George Santayana...
• Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act v, Sc. 3...
• Men create the gods in their own image. -- Xenophane
• Bob: Only _I_ could have executed such a masterpiece of electoral fraud.
  And I have the records to prove it! Here, just look at these -- [pulls out binders and floppy disks] each one a work of Machiavellian art....
• The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
• The Gods don't like competition.