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Letter "S" » superstitions
«All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
declare, favourite, suit, superstitions, The Rose
«For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.»
Author: Earl Nightingale
| Keywords:
acquire, bits, chip, chipped, chipping, chip away, chip in, emotions, harmful, qualities, rewarding, rich person, superstitions
«It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions»
«Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
intended, superstitions, turn back
«Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.»
«Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
superstitions, The central
«Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either»
«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
«It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.»
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, branches, contemplate, defend, dispel, dispelling, human soul, incomprehensible, inexplicable, perform, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, Rejecting, rid, superstitions, surround, The Miracle, tree branch, tremendous, worship
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