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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: All-Powerful Being Book Clever Clues Comforted Death End Enough Find May Neatly Packaged Playing Pleasure Puzzle Reduced Revealed Rules Satisfactory Solution Something Take Through Which Why

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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: All-Powerful Because Believer Command Does Doing God King Make Merely Moral Person Said Secular Something Tells Us Who

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When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

~Alice Cooper

Topics: All-Powerful Apart Believe Character Control Devil Everyone God Got Hand Hardest He His Just Life Other Over Real Real Character Tear Total Trying You Your

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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

~Barbara Bush

Topics: All-Powerful Guidance He Lord Lot May Needs President Think You

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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: All-Powerful Ancient Both Earth Fairly Get God Gods Good Greek Hindu Humans Idea Insist Long Long Time Most New New Idea Stuck Them Time Worship

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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Absolutely All-Powerful Also Benevolent Contradictory Could Evidence Existence Face God Idea Mean Part Questioning Say Think I Think

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Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of its people, not from an all-powerful central government.

~Christine Todd Whitman

Topics: All-Powerful Believe Best Central Closest Diversity Government Level Nation People Problems Republicans Solved Strength

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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

~Ernestine Rose

Topics: Adequate All-Powerful Character Forming Giving Hardly How Idea Law Mass Opinion Public Public Opinion Society Tone

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Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Acting All-Powerful Emerged Empire Expected Hemisphere Least Like Master Our Revolution Used Where

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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

~Gene Roddenberry

Topics: All-Powerful Creates God Having His Humans Logic Mistakes Must Own Question Story Them Then Who

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