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"Just change your attitude and perception to change your life."

"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."

"All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary."

"We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country."

"When the tables are turned, whoever was full becomes hungry."

"If you want to change anything or your surroundings, change your perception; it will change everything."
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"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."


"The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization."


"Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements."


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


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