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If the only choices human beings have are to believe in a magical, supremely perfect CEO in the sky, or a universe burped into existence by a false vacuum collapse with amazingly fortunate consequences, then it is clear to me at least that superstition's stock will be a strong buy for decades, if not centuries, to come.
Clay Farris Naff: A Salmon's Tale: Science, Religion and the Search for Origins 2010
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Stevie said The Sky Is Crying, superstition's in his blood
Gary Moore 2009
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Surat, they of China, that for superstition's sake never eat flesh nor fish all their lives, never marry, but live in deserts and by-places, and some pray to their idols twenty-four hours together without any intermission, biting of their tongues when they have done, for devotion's sake.
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And I call strength, religion, as opposed to superstition's attempt to control what happens.
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Stevie said The Sky Is Crying, superstition's in his blood
Texas Strut Gary Moore 1990
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Superstition, and two mysterious incidents, even while she remained on the hill, if indeed they were more than superstition's coinage, helped to depress her.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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O fresh and bright shone reason's light through superstition's gloom,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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There are more wooden gods than people in Batengo village, and the superstition's so thick you could cut it with a knife.
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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And that the struggle for a school free from superstition's taint was not completely won, Peter Cooper fully realized.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Here they have a little terror of small hobgoblins, good-natured fairies, a love-sick river-sprite, and so forth, beings who with us in the north, almost go about our houses like superstition's tame domestic animals.
The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870
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