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"The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall."
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"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
Life
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
History
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
Religion
"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"
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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
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"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
Religion
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
Religion
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."
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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."
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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it."
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"My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates."
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"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
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"There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight."
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"To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run."
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