"Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family."

Family, Religious, Training

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"Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family."

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"Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived."

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"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."

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"Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."

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"It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist."

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"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."

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