"That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set."

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Source : Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco

Robert Neelly Bellah

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“I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.”
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”

Source : "Faithful Place". Book by Tana French, August 19, 2010.
“Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.”
“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
“Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.”
“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

Source : Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”
“In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.”

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