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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. Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
  • 2. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
  • 3. It's not catastrophes murders deaths diseases that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh and run up the steps of omnibuses.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
  • 2. It's pretty amazing being me.
  • 3. I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

3 Anger

  • 1. Get mad then get over it.
  • 2. Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.
  • 3. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 2. Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
  • 3. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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