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«The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.»
«The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Funny,
Magic,
Politicians
| Keywords:
draw away, in common, magician, The Magician
«The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.»
«There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.»
«The earth is what we all have in common.»
«There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
cause of death, common cause, competing, devout, equivalent, gene, genes, groups, hereditary, in common, membership, selective, subordinate, subordinates, subordinating, The Next Generation, transmitted
«The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
arrogance, Christian Churches, hostile, humility, in common, in name, opposites, penitence, rigidity, submissiveness, The Christian, usurpation, utterly
«Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
art, attractive, common, commoner, everyday, in common, new, science, seem
«The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Politicians
| Keywords:
Challenges, in common, politician
«That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
airplane, Airplanes, businessman, common interest, conversation, Father, hours, humorless, interesting, in common, kids, sitting, straight, suddenly, talking, type, universally
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