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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

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William Robertson Smith
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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. I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
  • 2. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
  • 3. The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I walk into a kids' store and it's amazing the types of instruments – little squeaky things rattling things spinning tops.
  • 2. I know no subject more elevating more amazing more ready to the poetical enthusiasm the philosophical reflection and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety such beauty such magnificence?
  • 3. Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny because I really love that sort of classic look and I like being girly and flowery and wearing little D&ampG dresses. I wear hats a lot too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

3 Anger

  • 1. The preparation commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
  • 2. I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration patience anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
  • 3. Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

5 Architecture

  • 1. The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
  • 2. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
  • 3. Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
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