"For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy."

-- Emile Durkheim

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“Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.”

Source : "Bush seeks to calm Pakistani worries" by Jo Johnson and Caroline Daniel, www.ft.com. March 4, 2006.
“I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.”
“'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.”
“Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.”
“I just try to be relax, because I'm always been a relaxed person.”
“Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.”
“Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
“I don't meet the competition, I destroy it.”

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