"Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells."
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"But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it."
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"I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts."
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"So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved."
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"There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali."
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"Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said."
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"We are the ghosts of the singing furies ."
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"Only times and places, only names and ghosts."
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"I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life."
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"And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em."
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"Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils."
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"It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen."
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"There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions."
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"Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts."
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""The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad."
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"Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind."
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"Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?"
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"Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Holy Ghost."
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"The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply."
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"Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof."
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