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“Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.”

“The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.”

World Firsts Christ Sun Week Ancient Sunday Dedicated Resurrection Twelve Sunrise Eastern Apostles Fables Parody Days Of The Week Zodiac

Book:COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

Source: COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

“Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.”

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Author:Frederick The Great

“I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.”

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Author:Frederick The Great

“Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.”

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Author:David Clement-Davies

“Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”

Ifs Hard Purpose Goal Embrace Worthy Cosmic Crave Fables Reassuring Hard Truths Custodians Pale Blue Dot

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Equals make the best friends.”

Friendship Fables

Book:Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories

Source: Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories

“It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.”

Men Reason Language Business Society Communication Logic Moved Myth Symbols Fables Mandates

Author:Irwin Edman

“We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.”

Way Stories Survival Monsters Not Afraid Fascination Fables Predator Preparedness Chatter

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored”

Men Seems Young Dies House Born Sleep Spring Old Man Toil Maids Fables Fleeing Vanishing Spring Time Moored

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were blank.”

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Author:Charlotte Gerson

“The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.”

Together Science Passion Names Enjoy Pleasure Numbers Careers Hero Taste Creating Accounts Investing Delight Deeds Pursuit Preserves Lofty Fables Single Person Marvellous

Author:Francois Arago

“From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.”

Men Given Nature Doubt Surround Fables

Book:Cinq Mars (Complete)

Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)

“. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.”

People Mind Has Beens Body Together America Desire Values Left Fiction Television Taste Slave Tyranny Chains Tyrants Predictions Linked Bondage Fables Clutch Mirages Orwellian

Author:Gerry Spence

“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?”

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.”

Gay Ridiculous Realms Fables

Author:Tony Kushner

“We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.”

“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.”

Age Nations Wise Folks Quotations Fables

Author:William Feather

“I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.”

Writing Wanted Literature Break Fables

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.”

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Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.”

People Problem Psychology Solutions Ancient Crowds Fables Sphinx

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”

Way Love Philosophy Bigs Fear Love Is Wonder Poet Lovers Philosophical Bounds Philosopher Myth Arise Thoughtful Awe Poetic Fables Awe And Wonder

Book:Saint Thomas Aquinas

Source: Saint Thomas Aquinas

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