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Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
George Carlin
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1937 to 2008; Wikidata Q150651, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150651 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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