"A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

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Source : Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.98, Hachette UK

Clifford D. Simak

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“Run scared ... and they never catch you.”
“I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.”
“I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.”

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“Friends are the family that you choose.”
“That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.”
“I'm not 20 anymore, and I feel it.”

Source : "Elena Anaya On Baring It All". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.
“Being banned from UK will be minor irritant for [Donald] Trump, but catastrophic for local community around Turnberry.”

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“Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.”

Source : Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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