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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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"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."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"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."
"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
"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."
"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
"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."
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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