"Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture."

-- Edward Hirsch

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“He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like theyÂ´d met with utter disappointment and become attached to it.”
“Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.”
“A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.”
“There are offences given and offences not given but taken.”
“If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.”
“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”
“I want a one hundred percent guarantee that theyâ€™ll all be fine.â€ I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. â€œUnfortunately, there are no guarantees in life.”

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“But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.”

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