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"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
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"I didn't fancy any of my teachers."
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"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
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"It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights."
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"I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way."
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"If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'"
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"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."
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"I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it."
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"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern."
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"I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy."
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"I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be."
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"Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged."
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"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."
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"This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths."
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"The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity."
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"Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin."
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"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost."
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"The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers."
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"The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people."
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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
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"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."
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