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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We… — John Cheever
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once,… — Charles Dickens
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the… — William Butler Yeats
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their… — Dan Brown
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This… — Thomas Merton
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be… — Thomas Jefferson
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line,… — Alberto Manguel
Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. — Barry Hughart
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our… — Edward Abbey
By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much. — Stephen King
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. — Salman Rushdie
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are… — Thomas Jefferson
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were… — Salman Rushdie
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come… — Stephen R. Donaldson
The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's… — Carl Sagan
… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this… — Miranda July
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it.… — Donald Miller
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still… — Edwidge Danticat
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished… — Christopher Hitchens
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. — Richard Brautigan
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from… — Jacob Bronowski

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