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religious believe dogmatic
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. Charlie Chaplin
religious children men
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. Charles Tupper
religious educational book
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
religious feelings atheism
I am without religious feeling. Charles Sumner
religious mistake apples
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing. Charles de Lint
religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction.
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction narrative moments
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton
fiction literature jazz
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature. David Brin
fiction science-fiction interest
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. Denis Leary
fiction i-can faux
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. Dennis Lehane
tradition lost hardest
traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.
tradition creation
There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. Carlos Fuentes
tradition
I keep up the tradition, the zydeco. Boozoo Chavis
tradition reconcile customs
Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke
tradition
We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else. Brian King
tradition classical-music music-is
The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Charles Rosen
tradition
The dead govern the living. Auguste Comte
tradition deny western
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. Camille Paglia
tradition
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom