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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
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We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
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A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
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Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal. Edward Hoagland
religion ordinary deities
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. Edward Gibbon
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold J. Toynbee
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Fiction or fable allures to instruction. Benjamin Franklin
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Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind Brandon Boyd
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Natural history is not about producing fables. David Attenborough
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Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. Beeban Kidron
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Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. Joseph Addison
fables tortoises tire
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring. Northrop Frye
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Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. George Washington
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National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. Joseph Joubert
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One good turn deserves another. Petronius
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The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati. Camille Paglia
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traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy. Edith Wharton
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. Carlos Fuentes
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The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Charles Rosen
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I keep up the tradition, the zydeco. Boozoo Chavis
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The dead govern the living. Auguste Comte
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom
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Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke
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It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition. Anthony Daniels