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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. - Doris L

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing

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Cats
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What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing

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Religion
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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Superstition
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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Superstition

The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over us–Not all are free
Who make mock of their chains. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Superstition

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. – Freda Adler

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Superstition

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Superstition

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. – Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

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I dont like begging money from producers. – David Byrne

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