Superstitions Quotes

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. H. L. Mencken
Government Man Dangerous Think Intolerable Insane Out Able Taboos Prevailing Superstitions He Almost Most Without Conclusion Inevitably Any Dishonest Regard Who Lives Things
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia
Great Mind Miracles Pain Relieved Fables Only Poetic Superstitions Through He Myths Perhaps Most Terrible Terrible Thing Accepts Years Tragedy Truths Child Taught After Fantasies Them Should Teach Believes Thing
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. Ulysses S. Grant
Back Everyone Mine Superstitions Never Until Always Go Been His Accomplished Intended Stop Anything Anywhere Turn Thing Started
I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. Amy Adams
Once Relaxed Kind Superstitions Go Lot Hogwash Them Realized Then Used Let Go
We are often told by our friends and family members to not go to a particular place owing to some unkown energies that might have existed there, making us form superstitions in our mind. Anita Hassanandani Reddy
Family Mind Our Members Some Superstitions Particular Making Go Existed Friends Friends And Family Owing Family Members Often Form Energies Place Might Us
Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions. Brian McBride
Me Game Before Few Say Direct Superstitions Prayers Basically
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. Bryan Magee
Religion Me Way Magic Cases Something Perennial Superstitions Most Devoid Content Least Same May Just Being Interesting Mankind Themselves Belief Beliefs Why Near Among Universal
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic. David Liss
Saying Culture People Once Magic More Superstitions Habits Democratic Am Lot Often Different Ordinary While Ordinary People Customs Separate Show Many Popular Whole Popular Culture Biologically
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women Other Religious More Superstitions Adverse Perpetuate Than Influences Bondage
I have routines but not superstitions. Garbine Muguruza
Superstitions Routines
I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous. Garbine Muguruza
Work You Sometimes Nervous Think Disturb Something Superstitions Feel Because Happens Against Them
In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye. Isabella Bird
Great People Seen Beauty Single Nation Please Eye Atheists Temples Superstitions Buddhists Sincere Male Tramp China Japan Agnostic Many Among Exquisite Extended Thing Slaves Preserve
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. Ruta Sepetys
Music Food Experience Architecture Diversity Every Corner Local Unlike City Woven Superstitions New Around Cultural Cultural Diversity New Orleans America Any Story Sensory Even Orleans Levels Lurking
One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable. Sabine Baring-Gould
Great Old World-Wide Unmistakable Insight Given Superstitions Glacier Study Advantages Tradition Literature Ice Transparent Origin
One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going. Steven Blum
Hope Future Speak Say Out About Superstitions Never Got Lot Loud Going Just Biggest Keep
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. Tea Obreht
Family Own Superstitions Rituals
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. Thomas Huxley
Fate Superstitions New End Begin Truths
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. Thomas Huxley
History Fate Superstitions New End Begin Truths Us
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. William Robertson Smith
Savage Religion Better Nothing State Tribe Magical Superstitions Rites Individual Terror Foreign Private Dictate Times May Common
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear. Zach Johnson
Sunday Wear Outfit Superstitions Underwear Socks

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