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superstition
«Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.»
Author: Emma Goldman
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arrogance, artificially, conceit, conceits, dignity, falsehoods, increases, maintained, network, patriotism, robs, self respect, superstition, The Network, with conceit
«No, I don't think people really give a shit about that (meeting one's maker) unless they're completely bamboozled by religious superstition - to live your life in planning for this good time you're going to have in the sky»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
bamboozle, bamboozled, bamboozles, Good Time, maker, meeting, planning, shit, superstition
«Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
adventure, adventured, adventuring, daring, does not exist, exist, mostly, securities, security, superstition
«Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
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absolutes, idolatries, idolatry, purifies, purify, superstition
«Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, built, inquisition, inquisitions, superstition, The academy, the Inquisition
«MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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arts, coin, Coined, coining, converting, discreet, magic, serving, superstition
«I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science,
Superstition
| Keywords:
attractive, by year, edges, millennia, millennium, nearer, pseudo, siren, Sirens, sonorous, superstition, tempting, The Millennium, unreason
«I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
church, concoction, convinced, craftiest, crafty, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, in practice, in theory, superstition, teaching, theory, The Church, witchcraft
«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Reading,
Thinking
| Keywords:
amazed, atrocities, atrocity, author, bandage, bandaged, bandages, cowled, Holy Bible, holy book, phantom, purity, push, reverence, superstition, The Author, The Holy Bible, The Phantom, The Phantom of, throne
«I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
alike, Christianity, examining, fables, feature, founded, mythologies, mythology, particular, recently, redeeming, redeems, superstition, superstitions