“ She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. ”
- Lloyd C. Douglas- Copy
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“ Religion was the lullaby of the cradle, the ghost-story told by the old woman, Superstition. ”
- Robert G. Ingersoll- Copy
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“ Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been. ”
- Marva Collins- Copy
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“ The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever. ”
- Dan Rather- Copy
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“ If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. ”
- Adam Duritz- Copy
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“ You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow — leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it. ”
- Conrad Aiken- Copy
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“ Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses. ”
- Naomi Klein- Copy
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“ Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again). ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions. ”
- Ernest Hello- Copy
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“ Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. ”
- Rene Daumal- Copy
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“ Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — he hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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“ The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ”
- Michelangelo- Copy
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“ Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ”
- Frederic Chopin- Copy
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“ Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ”
- Alan Watts- Copy
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