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What perversity of mind made suffering a virtue and pleasure a sin? — Marty Rubin

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion . — James G. Frazer

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. — James G. Frazer

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. — James G. Frazer

legend ascribed to the Tauric Diana is familiar to classical readers; — James George Frazer

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. — James G. Frazer

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back. — James G. Frazer

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody. — Cat Power

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear — Denis Waitley

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament. — James G. Frazer

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes. — James G. Frazer

We write to find out what we know and what we want to say. — William Zinsser

Isn't it too late at night to begin something like this?"
"Not when one has a dire case of imagine-somnia. — Lisa Kleypas

The world cannot live at the level of its great men. — James G. Frazer

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. — James G. Frazer

If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on — R.A. Torrey

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study. — James G. Frazer

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. — James G. Frazer

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head. — Dar Williams

THE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. — James George Frazer

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. — James George Frazer

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. — James G. Frazer

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. — Woodrow Wilson

the fear of the human dead, which, on the whole, I believe to have been probably the most powerful force in the making of primitive religion. — James George Frazer

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic. — James G. Frazer

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages — James G. Frazer

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve. — Aries Spears

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being. — James G. Frazer

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer