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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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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
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"It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements."
Religion
"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
"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
Day
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
Funny
"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver."
Change
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
Science
"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
Life
"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."
Society
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
History
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
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