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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. You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
  • 2. There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
  • 3. I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature but we have to. It's an emergency.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Childbirth is more admirable than conquest more amazing than self-defense and as courageous as either one.
  • 2. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
  • 3. But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully 'cause it's important.
  • 2. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see one can only be angry with those he respects.
  • 3. Take the high road. No matter how much strife and consternation frustration and anger you might be confronted with – don't go to that level.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 2. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 3. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

5 Architecture

  • 1. There was an age however when the transition from savagery to civilization with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture took place for the first time.
  • 2. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
  • 3. In my experience if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg it's modern architecture.
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