"Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior."

-- Patricia Garfield

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“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.”
“Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.”
“If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.”
“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.29, Basic Books
“Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.10, University of Oklahoma Press
“Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them.”
“When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.”
“I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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