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"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
68
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
46
"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
165
"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
45
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
44
"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
53
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
54
"It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system."
36
"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."
35
"The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law."
39
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."
25
"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."
24
"Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me."
42
"When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win."
35
"What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax."
48
"So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round."
42
"I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me."
42
"I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands."
37
"So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us."
32
"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."
28
"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."
49
"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."
49
"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."
47
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
45
"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
79
"That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man."
33
"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."
38
"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."
52
"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
62
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."
51
"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
41
"If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever."
59
"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free."
38
"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."
42
"If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace."
14
"I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed."
38
"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."
37
"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house."
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