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«We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic.»
Author: C. Kilmer Myers
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dark ages, dark blue, fantasy world, plaster, plasters, relic, relics
«(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work»
Author: Learned Hand
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accretion, accretions, common law, coral, coral reef, monument, predecessors, Reef, relic, relics, successors
«[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.»
«In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
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barbarous, gold standard, in truth, relic, relics, Truth The
«Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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annihilate, annihilates, eternal, Human heart, relic, relics
«It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.»
Author: Lord Byron
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absolution, altars, confession, deity, digestion, elegant, Greek mythology, incense, mythology, real presence, relic, relics, Shrines, swallow, the Greek, transubstantiation
«Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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analytic, as it were, doctrines, effects, helped, historical, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, on the contrary, operation, Precepts, proposal, proposals, put forward, relic, relics, religious doctrine, replacing, repression, residues, teachings, treatment
«Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.»