"In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual."

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Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

William Robertson Smith

#May Quotes #Superstitions Quotes #Tribes Quotes

“The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”

Source : Josephine Tey (2012). “The Franchise Affair”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.”
“Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.”
“After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!”
“Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.”
“You donâ€™t choose a life, dad. You live one.”
“Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.”
“Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.”

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