"The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder."
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"Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God."
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"The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous."
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"Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body."
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"The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past."
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"The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science."
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"Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God."
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"Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind."
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"Superstition is part of the poetry of life."
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"Superstition is the poetry of life."
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"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
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"That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion."
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"The birth of science was the death of superstition."
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"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
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"Religion is not removed by removing superstition."
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"Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face."
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"The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce."
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"The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition."
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"Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre."
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"Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages."
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