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«There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.»
«Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.»
Author: Eric Gill
| Keywords:
added, classical, Daily Telegraph, fleet, fleetest, Fleet Street, Gothic, pill, real thing, sham, shams, steel, sugar, telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, tower, Tower Bridge
«Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.»
«Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.»
«Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.»
Author: Johnny Rotten
(Musician)
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advertising, advertising agencies, advertising agency, agency, a bit, bit, corporate, free agency, MTV, paraded, parading, plus, pluses, sham, shams, The Agency, The Video, video, videos
«There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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diamonds, sham, shams, vice versa
«If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them.»
«Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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detached, detaching, eyed, informed, mystic, open-eyed, resignation, sham, shams
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