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• Even so, oxen, lions and horses, if they had hands wherewith to grave images, would fashion gods after their own shapes and give them bodies like their own.
  -- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 15...
• Men create the gods in their own image. -- Xenophane
• Nothing is impossible to industry. -- Periander (fl. c. B.C. 570)
• Friendship is neither transitive nor inherited. -- Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language
• The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so canno
  or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing....
• Xenophanes was the first person who asserted... that the soul is a spirit.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Xenophanes, iii...
• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
  -- John Webster (c. 1580-1625) -- The White Devil, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
  It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as daemons.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Plato, xlii...