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You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material and that's a creepy thing to do.
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching to love their neighbors then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
Quotes By Mary Douglas
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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society...
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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized...
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The...
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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it...
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion and...
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I have increasingly over the years felt that religion today does our...
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Since 1970 relationships can be more volatile jobs more ephemeral...
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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group they can...
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Inequality can have a bad downside but equality for its part sure does get...
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Mormons... are so strong they can handle wealth they are confident. I think...
Quotes About Jealousy
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What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There...
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I don't get jealousy I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.
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That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the...
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On the same line of reasoning if Australians were to be Australians or...
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When I see a good singer I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because...
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That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course the main reason is...
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in...
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Obviously in dealing with a relationship sexuality has to be involved and...
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I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and...