"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."

-- Mary Douglas

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“I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.”
“I love the smell of a mans skin.”
“What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.”
“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.”
“No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.”
“We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies”
“My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything,”
“It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.”

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