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Tag Name "Gods" (1297)

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The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.
William L. Shirer
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Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.
Theognis of Megara
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success 't is the result of all the others 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gainIn some wise may come ending to my painIt may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
William Morris
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Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
William Robertson Smith
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It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
Alastair Reynolds
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The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.
William S. Burroughs
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You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
Stephen King
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Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.
Eleanor Perenyi
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Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
William Shakespeare
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare
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When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Mason Cooley
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Alan Lightman
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For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all
William Shakespeare
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The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
William Shakespeare
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Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.
William Shakespeare
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
Al-Ghazali
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The god that you believe in, and the god that I believe in, maybe different gods however, the God that made you, and the God that made me, They are the same God.
William Wallace
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A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
William Winwood Reade
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The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
William Wordsworth
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
Anne Carson
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If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
Aesop
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The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
Aeschylus
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