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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. The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
  • 2. My best friend just had a baby and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now which is crazy.
  • 3. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think Polanski's an amazing director.
  • 2. It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
  • 3. It's pretty amazing being me.

3 Anger

  • 1. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
  • 2. I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave he bought me three wedding rings already!
  • 3. The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 2. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
  • 3. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

5 Architecture

  • 1. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
  • 2. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
  • 3. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
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