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Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category: Religion

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
  • 2. You can fake your age or mask it but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
  • 3. Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When I receive letters from girls that say 'You give me confidence ' I think 'Wow this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.
  • 2. I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
  • 3. In editing it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

3 Anger

  • 1. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
  • 2. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
  • 3. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 2. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 3. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
  • 2. Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture it's really difficult.
  • 3. And when an architect has designed a house with large windows which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
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