James G. Frazer Quotes
With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper
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This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.
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I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
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Submitting to others, rather than affirming our own reality, is the heart of active co-dependence—we give up our own inner world in order to be accepted by others.
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Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
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There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.
