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«Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
expressed, instinctive, popular, sensed
«There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion.»
«No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.»
«Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
Babylon, flames, flow, hierarchies, hierarchy of, idols, imperial, mystic, mystics, pagan, pagans, popular, popular culture, temple, Temple of, theater, The Imperial, The Western, Western, westerns
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
habitually, lap, page, popular, reader, slack, slacked, slacking, strain, whatsoever, write off
«The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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are, become, Forbade, forbidden, forbidding, More, More popular than, popular, popular with, they, things
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? It's a beautiful world all right.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
all right, beer, Christmas, cola, consumption, entertainment, fast food, guessed, harmoniously, mix, popular, Popular entertainment, spirituality, touching
«There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
More popular than, most popular, popular, popular with, providence, scapegoat, scapegoats, sins
«Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
lie in, More popular than, popular, popular opinion, popular with
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