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The story of wolf killing illustrates the tenacity of two Euro-American conquering devices—folklore and property. Folklore fueled wolf hatred through rituals and legends codified into motifs and transmitted by word of mouth. Wolf lore survived by being remembered and retold, while property in the form of livestock also traveled across landscapes and lifetimes.
~ Jon T. Coleman
Thirdly. It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with that inviolable sanction and authority, which always attend received opinions.
~ David Hume
I want to do another reality show. It's based on The Mole. It's about sexually transmitted diseases. It's called "God, I Hope That's a Mole."
~ Zach Galifianakis
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
~ Louise Brooks
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
~ Jane Yolen
You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.
~ Patrick Soon-Shiong
The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking
~ Dean Cavanagh
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
~ Robert Walpole
greatness is not transmitted through the generations. Every man ultimately makes or destroys his own legacy.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted.
~ Jessica Stern
I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the race,— From generation unto generation fitted, And shifted round from place to place. Reason becomes a sham, Beneficence a worry: Thou art a grandchild, therefore woe to thee! The right born with us, ours in verity,
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
~ Neil Gaiman
They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.
~ Anthony Doerr
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
~ Sukarno
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~ John Dickson Carr
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
~ Neil Gaiman
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me. I refer you particularly to the Beatles, 1956;
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
~ Andrew Rosenthal
In my unfortunately infrequent encounters with real passion, I'm rarely as careful as I ought to be. The rationalization goes something like: With all the bullets and mortar rounds I've survived, I must be immune to sexually transmitted diseases. Stupid, I know. More likely, fate will indulge its taste for irony by killing me with AIDS os some other unpleasant alternative.
~ Barry Eisler
fundamental question: Did Jesus and his disciples teach an orthodoxy that was transmitted to the churches of the second and third centuries?
~ Bart D. Ehrman
men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they make it under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
~ Steven Pinker
Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100%.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
~ Joseph Joubert
but Their mode of speech was transmitted thought. Even now They talked in Their tombs.
~ H.P. Lovecraft