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RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable… — Ambrose Bierce
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become… — Fisher Ames
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a… — Eric Van Lustbader
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient… — Thomas Paine
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread… — Frederick The Great
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of… — Frederick The Great
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to… — David Clement-Davies
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy… — Carl Sagan
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness,… — E. O. Wilson
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man,… — Joseph Campbell
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer… — Charlotte Gerson
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which… — Alfred de Vigny
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at… — Tony Kushner
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,… — Henry David Thoreau
I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break. — Jeanette Winterson
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read… — Mark Mothersbaugh
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot… — Cobie Smulders
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in… — Jacques Barzun

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