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Mary Douglas

"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."

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Donna Grant

"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

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Donna Grant

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

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Donna Grant

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

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Donna Grant

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

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Donna Grant

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

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Donna Grant

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."

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Donna Grant

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

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Donna Grant

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."

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Donna Grant

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

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Donna Grant

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

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Mary Douglas
"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."

Life

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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."

Society

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Mary Douglas
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."

Will

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

Equality

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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."

Equality

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Mary Douglas
"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

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Mary Douglas
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."

Superiority

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Mary Douglas
"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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