"The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum."

-- Jonathan Haidt

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“No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.”

Source : William Henry Davies, “The Mind's Liberty”
“The nurses were all angels in my eyes.”
“While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the religious traditions of mankind have said forms a coherent body of thought. . . . There is recompense for suffering.Â A principle beyond selfishness is at work in the cosmos. .Â . I do not know whether any of this is true.Â I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.”

Source : David Berlinski (2010). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the ***** ballgame.”
“Iâ€™m so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry will continue to thrive in this country for years to come.”
“When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!”
“So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.”
“I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,”

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