Harvey Cox Quotes
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
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I'm trying to show everybody that I'm a girl, and I'm five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It's your world, too!
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You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
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Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
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To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
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Everyone who works with me calls me 'Ma.' I'm the motherly type.
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The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
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However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.
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Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
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Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.
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I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.
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All language – everything we say – is just an approximation of reality.
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Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.
