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Mary Douglas Quotes

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: March 25, 1921 - May 16, 2007

Topics

Religion Worry Done More Organized

The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

Life Dreams Passion Children I Am

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.

Food Day Sleep People Cold Rest

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

Beautiful Me Loved Beautiful Place

Sometimes, when people don't like our movies, we're like, 'I'm with you.'

Robert Ben Garant

People You Sometimes Movies Like

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Good Training World Matter Top High

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

Nature Path Find Know First Outside

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Power Focus Prayer Direction Think

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates

Pain Winning Feeling Boxing More

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

Morning College Writing Wake Up Say

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Me Listen Drift Going Off Stuff

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

People Start Know Talk Never Sound

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Armstrong Williams

Age Meaning Morality Even Our Lives

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