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The Gods Themselves
«It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain»
Author: Doris Fleeson
| About:
Hell
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«God helps those who help themselves.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
God,
Self-confidence
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Gods Themselves, helps, The Gods Themselves
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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«Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies»
Author: Homer
| About:
God,
Men
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blaming, follies, Gods Themselves, mortals, The Gods Themselves, woes
«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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adults, childish, clarity, devils, get rid of, goblin, goblins, Gods Themselves, identity, No Angel, obsolete, openly, Or logic, psychology, punctuation, quench, quenches, rebellion, redeem, The Family, The Gods Themselves, The Witches, thirst, witches, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns
«Do you not see even stones yield to the power of time, lofty towers fall to decay, and the rocks molder away? Temples and statues of the gods go to ruin, nor can the gods themselves prolong their date or get reprieve from fate»
Author: Lucretius
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Gods Themselves, lofty, molder, moldered, prolong, reprieve, temples, The Gods Themselves, The Rocks, towers, to the power
«If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here»
Author: Tom Lehrer
(Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Commitment,
God
| Keywords:
Gods Themselves, square, square root, The Gods Themselves, touch on
«All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
admiration, deemed, failings, Gods Themselves, Human sacrifice, regrets, sacrifices, stresses, temptations, They Live, The Gods Themselves, The Limit, This Man, to the limit
«Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
boredom, Gods Themselves, in vain, the gods, The Gods Themselves, vain