"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."

-- Mary Douglas

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“An artist's business is only to see.”
“I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.”
“I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”
“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

Source : Isaac Rosenfeld (1962). “An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties”
“I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.”
“It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.”
“The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.”

Source : David W. Augsburger (1992). “Conflict Mediation Across Cultures: Pathways and Patterns”, p.229, Westminster John Knox Press

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