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"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
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"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."
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"I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so."
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"Monuments are for the living, not the dead."
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"This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm."
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"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds."
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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."
Society
"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting."
History
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
Marriage
"What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other."
Enemy
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
Equality
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
Funny
"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."
Equality
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
American
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
Equality
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
Science
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