"If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility."

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James G. Frazer

#Hands Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Magic Quotes

“People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.”
“I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.”

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“In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.”
“What's the point anyway â€” Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.”
“Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.”
“Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.”
“Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.”
“It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.”

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