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“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology , sociology , economics , linguistics , art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it the element of the sacred .”
Source : "Patterns in Comparative Religion". Book by Mircea Eliade, p. xiii, 1963.
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“You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town”
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“Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.”
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“Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.”
Source : "Ethics of Nazi doctors analyzed in telecast" by Joanna Arnold, October 17, 2007.
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“If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.”
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“We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.”
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“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”
Source : Stewart Brand (1995). “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built”, p.311, Penguin
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“People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.”
Source : "'Elizabeth' brings queen's life to big screen". www.cnn.com. November 04, 1998.
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“He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.”
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“[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.”