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Mary Douglas

"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."

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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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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."

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"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."

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"We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living."

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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."

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"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."

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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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"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."
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"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
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"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."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
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"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."
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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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"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power."
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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."
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"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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