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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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"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."
Funny
"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?"
Love
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
American
"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
"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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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
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"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."
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Personal Development
"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."
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Personal Development
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
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"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
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"I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living."
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"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
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"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."
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Personal Development
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
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Personal Development
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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