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• “I hesitate to use the word 'godlike,' because it's a little strong, but he really is a mythical figure around here," said Ben Jones, a Penn State student who covers the football team for the blog BlackShoeDiaries.com.”

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• “Twisting convulsively, it rolled down into the road under our horses 'feet, -- and there this human form, which some call godlike, writhed and floundered like a severed worm, and disguised itself in blood and dust.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860

• “I dare to assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.”

  Chapter 1 -- Foreword

• “I dare assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike.”

  The Voyage of the "Snark"

• “Machinery is killing more and more of what we call the godlike in us. ”

  The Great Hunger

• “I had witnessed an act of magnanimity it would not be impious to call godlike; I felt a need to know the outcome.”

  The Mask of Apollo

• “Valentine calls a godlike angel, and of whom the rabbis said, "His name is like unto the name of his Master.”

  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03

• “My own conviction is, that if a man would but bend his energies to live, if he would but try to be a true, that is, a godlike man, in all his dealings with his fellows,”

  Malcolm

• “But if any one going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are the farthest off, [343] and by no means near at hand.”

  The Iliad of Homer (1873)

• “Those students who are still making comments online should be disabused of the thought that they are entertaining that they have a "godlike" status, and are somehow powerful, as they slander this victim.”

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