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Quote by George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes mor

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana

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The Lords prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. – Arthur Wellesley

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. – Immanuel Kant

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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isnt alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. – Flora Lewis

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Theres naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. – Lord Byron

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