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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. - George Santay

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. – George Santayana

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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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Imagination
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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana

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Women
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Fairy Tales
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This is not simply a story about a frog and a prince. A story about a frog would be biological. A story about a prince would be historical. But a story about a frog-prince is magical, and therein lies all the difference. – Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Child

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Fairy Tales

Dont ask questions of fairy tales. – Jewish Folk Saying

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Fairy Tales

Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, chance are you will be walking home barefoot. – Author unknown

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Fairy Tales

Theres a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. – Diane Arbus

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Fairy Tales

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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. – Gustav Stickley

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The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so well see thats to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it. – Blair Underwood

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You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he’ll do you one better and he’ll kick a whole wall down. – Glee, “Furt” (season 2, episode 8, original airdate November 23, 2010), written

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Fate