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"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
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"Do not depreciate a creation of God."
"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
"Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality."
"The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation."
"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
"The sweetest apples are eaten first."
"The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified."
"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
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