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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a…
— Tertullian
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
— Josiah Royce
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day…
— Louis C. K.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
— Edward de Bono
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The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made…
— Lesley Gore
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This…
— Barry McCaffrey
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to…
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out…
— Brad Pitt
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I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean!…
— Cate Blanchett
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Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing…
— Rajneesh
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must…
— Denis Diderot
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Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by…
— Claude Bernard
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they…
— Protagoras
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