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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate. Eleanor Clift
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If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion Elbert Hubbard
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Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt
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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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National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. Joseph Joubert
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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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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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Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. Joseph Addison
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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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The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition. Charles Rosen
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There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing. Carlos Fuentes
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Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke
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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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We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom