Harvey Cox Quotes

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

Harvey Cox

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• Humanism
• American Culture
• Traditional theism

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• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

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• The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

  

  Dana Plato
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• Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
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• Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Level
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• Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

  

  Plutarch
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• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

  

  Willa Cather
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• On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.

  

  Rene Descartes
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• I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

  

  Sean Lennon
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• There's no map for being an artist.

  

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• There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

  

  Bill Clinton
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• Surprisingly, the second group of individuals who tend to be protein malnourished are elite athletes—especially women. Their protein demands are often exceedingly high because of their greater amounts of lean body mass and higher levels of physical activity. These hard-working athletes tend to consume more than enough calories, but they rarely eat adequate levels of protein.

  

  Barry Sears
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• America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

  

  Anthony Walton
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• The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.

  

  Rumi
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• Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

  

  Harvey Cox
  • Religions
  • Humanism
  • American Culture