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Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz Quotes: Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
         

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


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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.

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



When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.



But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.

But you've always used words so wordily in crafty defense of your Trinity, although He never needed such defense before you got Him from me as a Unity.



Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.



I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.



What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?



What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?



The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.



He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.





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