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• Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

  Dan Brown

  Men, Tasks, Knowledge Is Power

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.203, Random House

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• It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

  Peter Winter

  Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Men, Fascination

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• Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

  Juliet Marillier

  Exhibits

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.564, Macmillan

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• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Beautiful, Grief, Eye

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• We work and that is godlike.

  J. G. Holland

  Work

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• It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.
  [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen
  Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

  Peter Winter

  Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Destiny, Numbers

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.162, Routledge

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• The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

  Nick Cave

  Hero, Needs, Information

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• If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good purpose. The machine itself has neither mind nor soul nor moral sense. Only man has been endowed with these godlike attributes. Every age has its destined duty. Ours is to nurture an awareness of those divine attributes and a sense of responsibility in giving them expression.

  David Sarnoff

  Responsibility, Science, Men

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• True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

  Bertrand Russell

  True Happiness, Humans, Human Beings

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.238, Routledge

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• Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  God, Perfectly Good, Remember

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• There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

  Joseph Addison

  Justice, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.171

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• Land of lost gods and godlike men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Land, Losing

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

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• The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

  J. G. Holland

  Animal, Men, Self

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• There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

  J. G. Holland

  Patience, Patient, Wells

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• I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Animal, Men, Giving

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• Tis not for golden eloquence I pray,
  A godlike tongue to move a stony heart--
  Methinks it were full well to be apart
  In solitary uplands far away,
  Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray,
  Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face
  Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Dream, Sweet, Moving

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• We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

  Katori Hall

  People, Leader, Trying

  "Katori Hall Talks "Radical" MLK Jr in 'The Mountaintop' Interview" by Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Beautiful, Strong, Laughter

  Leopold Stokowski (1943). “Music for all of us”

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• Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mean, May

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.171, Discovery House

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Determination, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.142

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• The new creation is created after God in righteousness and true holiness. The new man is after God, like God, godlike, complete in Jesus Christ. The new creation is just like God. May I say it like this, "You are a little god on earth running around."

  Benny Hinn

  Running, Jesus, Men

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• Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Godly, Servant Of God

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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