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* "Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Laurence J. Peter<ref>Peter, Laurence J. (1977). ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times'' (New York: William Morrow), p. 44. Commenting on the [[Francis Thompson]] quote: "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."</ref>
* "Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Laurence J. Peter<ref>Peter, Laurence J. (1977). ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times'' (New York: William Morrow), p. 44. Commenting on the [[Francis Thompson]] quote: "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."</ref>
* "Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.” - [[Marquis de Sade]]<ref>[http://thinkexist.com/quotation/imperious-choleric-irascible-extreme_in/346903.html Marquis de Sade quotes]</ref>
* "[Y]ou are perhaps too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you." - [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] <ref>Imbert de Saint-Amand, Baron Arthur Léon (1890). [http://books.google.com/books?id=_-7uAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA222&dq=%22wife+of+the+first+consul%22+too+intelligent&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FCvwVIzWEMzaoASkgoKwDw&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22wife%20of%20the%20first%20consul%22%20too%20intelligent&f=false ''The Wife of the First Consul''] (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons), p. 222; translation of ''La femme du premier Consul'' (1884), new 1886 ed. (Paris: E. Dentu) translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 27, 2015.</ref>
* "[Y]ou are perhaps too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you." - [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] <ref>Imbert de Saint-Amand, Baron Arthur Léon (1890). [http://books.google.com/books?id=_-7uAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA222&dq=%22wife+of+the+first+consul%22+too+intelligent&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FCvwVIzWEMzaoASkgoKwDw&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22wife%20of%20the%20first%20consul%22%20too%20intelligent&f=false ''The Wife of the First Consul''] (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons), p. 222; translation of ''La femme du premier Consul'' (1884), new 1886 ed. (Paris: E. Dentu) translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 27, 2015.</ref>
* "Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity...of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?" - [[John Updike]] <ref>Updike, John (1989). ''Self-Consciousness: Memoirs'' (New York, NY: Knopf), ch. 4.</ref> See also: [[Atheism is uninspiring]]
* "Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity...of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?" - [[John Updike]] <ref>Updike, John (1989). ''Self-Consciousness: Memoirs'' (New York, NY: Knopf), ch. 4.</ref> See also: [[Atheism is uninspiring]]