Evelyn Underhill Quotes
As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.
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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
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It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.
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The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.
