"A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The temple of the Celestial Venus at Carthage, whose sacred precincts formed a circumference of two miles, was judiciously converted into a Christian church; and a similar consecration has preserved inviolate the majestic dome of the Pantheon at Rome."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“It is fear that first brought gods into the world.”
“Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.”
“Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.”

Source : "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.
“I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority?”

Source : "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“We shed blood to take the word `Grexit' away from the mouth of foreigners, and Syriza is bringing this word back to their mouths,”
“I donâ€™t want to be special.Â I donâ€™t want to look special.Â Iâ€™m happy with just â€˜meâ€™”
“The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.”
“It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.”

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