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Mary Douglas

"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

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Amber Hurdle

"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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Amber Hurdle

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

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Amber Hurdle

"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."

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Amber Hurdle

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."

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Amber Hurdle

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting."

History

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Mary Douglas
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."

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Mary Douglas
"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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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."

Science

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