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• I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

  Bill Maher

  Respect, Thinking

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• We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour during the day. I don't have any superstitious rituals or anything like that.

  Josh Young

  Teacher, Exercise, Voice

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• It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Believe, Church, Taxation

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• It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

  R. C. Sproul

  Feelings, Spirit, Holy

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• It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's become a phobia, so I have to watch it. It affects your day a lot. Before I go on stage, there are certain things I do that are semi-sort of Gypsy superstitious things, but I'm coping with them. It hasn't affected the music, thank God. If you got really bad, you'd say "I'll pick that note instead of that one or sing this song before that.

  Rory Gallagher

  Song, Grandmother, Years

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• I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hobos, Hammers

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• I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Baseball, Player, Luck

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in the background. It's very rude. You have to ask them personally. It's like a vampire being invited into a house.

  Ben Wheatley

  People, House, Rude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts and chosen Divinities - and we should not fail to see that the terms are appropriate, if anything too kind.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trying, Divinity, Kind

  Source: chomsky.info

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• There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Creativity, Creative, Humanity

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• [Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff, didn't believe in any religion, and he just thought all these people were being superstitious and wanted them to go away. And in that way he was very close to H.P. Lovecraft, who was almost a believing atheist.

  Paul Laffoley

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Sex, Atheism, Age

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• Billy [Ray] is a preternatural enthusiast. He would say things to me like, "Now, let me tell you about Episode 3." I'm a big superstitious, having done television for quite some time, and I would say, "Billy, I can't wait to hear about it, but let's just stay here for right now, see what happens, and enjoy this moment.

  Matt Bomer

  Waiting, Rays, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• It is more helpful to think of dreams as reflections of the present rather than as pictures of the future. A dream of a car out of control, for example, does not indicate that a car accident will occur in the future. It does mean, however, that the dreamer is feeling out of control in his or her life right now. It is important not to be superstitious about dreams.

  Charles McPhee

  Dream, Mean, Reflection

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Lucky Charms, Mascots, Lucky

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Keys, Magic, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.

  Vaginal Davis

  Home, Hopeful, Sentimental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

  Charley Reese

  Stupid, Believe, Gun

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• Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Expression, Religion, Culture

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• Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Ordinary, Nerves

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.285

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• Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Rational, Believer, Unbelievers

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• Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Character, Mean, Greatness

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• Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

  Bette Lord

  Chinese, Religion, Sophisticated

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• In "Mother-Father-God," I talk about how the new thought movement led me to be superstitious. I think that might resonate with a lot of Americans, the superstition around optimism, like 'don't say anything negative' because you might jinx yourself with your thinking.

  Sarah Gerard

  Thinking, Optimism, Say Anything

  Source: therumpus.net

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