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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.


George Santayana

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Fear created the first gods in the world.
CAECILIUS STATIUS Fear created the first gods in the world
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rang you over and over again and you woul...
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MELINA MARCHETTA ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as...
BRIAN SELZNICK Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there t...
MO YAN People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... One of my girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.
CHELSEA HANDLER ‎"Marriage is absolute love and life absolute but only husband and wife can live an absolute marri...
EMANOUHL The earth has its music for those who will listen
REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES Never be so brief as to become obscure.
TRYON EDWARDS That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show....
SHERRILYN KENYON This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet sub...
DEANNA RAYBOURN Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
JULIAN BARNES Remaking the best picture could be seen as an obvious ploy. Then again, the first movie got so many ...
DAVE KARGER I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said...
EDWARD O. WILSON I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said...
GENE FOWLER I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He ...
GENE FOWLER It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
PETRONIUS Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person ev...
DAN PEARCE In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I w...
KATHERINE DUNHAM Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on...
RICH LITTLE A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods
LUCRETIUS if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you want loyalty - get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention - get a smart dog.
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CHRIS COLFER Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
GABRIELLE ZEVIN A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to...
MADELINE CLAIRE FRANKLIN Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As nations improve, so do their gods
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against...
JASON ALEXANDER Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increas...
FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God ...
RICK WARREN The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it i...
VIRCHAND GANDHI He could be so cynical. So dry and acidic. As blank as a page. Could he be tender, too?
KELLY CREAGH But somewhere before the Renaissance they realized that it was impossible to live without love. Thus...
DIMITRI ZAIK Friendship is as great as a True Friend
And a True Friend is as great as Friendship.
SHARVANI AKULA So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but a...
CORNELIUS VAN TIL Perhaps Hudson's Bay decided that as long as they got a little bit of sweetener, so they could look ...
LINDA SIMS There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE How could such a destructive man [George W. Bush] be so popular with the American people? Not only i...
BARBRA STREISAND He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl...
HOLLY SCHINDLER We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.
RUSSELL HOBAN Friendship is as great as a True Friend
And A True Friend is as great as True Friendship.
...
SHARVANI AKULA I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush sp...
CHELSEA HANDLER The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to ...
CHUCK BARRIS They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, a...
JOHN OWEN Wilson adventured for the whole of the human race. Not as a servant, but as a champion. So pure was ...
WILLIAM BOLITHO It was evident that such facts as these, as well as many others, could only be explained on the supp...
CHARLES DARWIN You can tell the Bible is true because at first it's so offensive. What it claims sometimes at first...
JUSTIN STECKBAUER According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a ...
PEMA CHODRON Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's h...
TERRY PRATCHETT The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
LUDWIG BORNE Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The witness whose testimony was struck was their first and perhaps their strongest witness, and so t...
CARL TOBIAS I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a b...
EVAN DANDO All I ask is that they go in if I give them a description of her and look for her, ... Now they tell...
SO COLEMAN In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place ...
PETER SO Having those fumbles in the last game was shocking, ... This isn't something the coaches are ignorin...
SO COLEMAN Cheung Kong was up HK$4.75 in London trade on Friday, so Hong Kong investors are catching up.
JAMES SO Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level.
JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th...
JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being...
JAMES SO The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that ...
JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da...
JAMES SO After rallying to 18,000 and then being sold off the market is now trying to re-establish a level of...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
DUNCAN JONES Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
― LeBron James, Shooting Stars
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DEYTH BANGER Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we...
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
GEORGE ORWELL

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GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot thr...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous i...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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