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> [What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daisaku-ikeda/what-we-need-most-is-to-restore-and-revive-our-humanity-we-must/)

[Daisaku Ikeda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daisaku-ikeda/)

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> [I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/i-want-to-go-on-being-a-student-i-told-him-i-want-to-be-a-teacher-i-m/)

[John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/)

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> [“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-bradbury/one-can-always-satisfy-oneself-i-suppose-it-s-other-people-one-can-t/)

[Malcolm Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-bradbury/)

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> [“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-a-farrell/every-gun-that-is-made-every-warship-launched-every-rocket-fired-5/)

[John A. Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-a-farrell/)

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> [You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-robbins/you-want-to-know-the-biggest-illusion-about-success-that-it-s-like-a/)

[Tony Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-robbins/)

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> [What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-salk/what-is-important-is-that-we-number-one-learn-to-live-with-each-other/)

[Jonas Salk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-salk/)

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> [If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-carson/if-someone-has-a-muslim-background-and-they-re-willing-to-reject/)

[Benjamin Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-carson/)

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> [Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-hannity/are-americans-afraid-to-face-the-reality-that-there-is-a-significant/)

[Sean Hannity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-hannity/)

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> [“What we are looking for, I am afraid, is neither a true leader nor a true Messiah, but a false Messiah -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-j-harris/what-we-are-looking-for-i-am-afraid-is-neither-a-true-leader-nor-a/)

[Sydney J. Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-j-harris/)

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> [“The Dream Box wasn't a place, but it was a destination. It wasn't life, but it was a way of life. Reese…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-pike/the-dream-box-wasn-t-a-place-but-it-was-a-destination-it-wasn-t-life/)

[Daniel Pike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-pike/)

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> [I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-lacey/i-lived-in-saudi-arabia-in-the-late-1970s-it-was-for-a-westerner/)

[Robert Lacey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-lacey/)

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> [We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-templeton/we-have-a-choice-we-can-live-in-the-past-and-be-miserable-and-unhappy/)

[John Templeton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-templeton/)

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> [“To me, a king is a lighthouse. A guide who can cast his glow across his kingdom and bring every last one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soman-chainani/to-me-a-king-is-a-lighthouse-a-guide-who-can-cast-his-glow-across-his/)

[Soman Chainani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soman-chainani/)

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> [James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-rifkin/james-watt-patented-his-steam-engine-on-the-eve-of-the-american/)

[Jeremy Rifkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-rifkin/)

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> [“You are a special breed that has never been. You are the highest stratum of the society. You belong to a class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha/you-are-a-special-breed-that-has-never-been-you-are-the-highest/)

[Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha/)

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> [“You are the last. The last seeker who will come to Gaia, the oracle of Apollo, the sanctuary of the old wisdom.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-hollan-van-zandt/you-are-the-last-the-last-seeker-who-will-come-to-gaia-the-oracle-of/)

[K. Hollan Van Zandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-hollan-van-zandt/)

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> [“The spiritual teachers universally recognized as “great” did not give commandments nor did they impose their way of life on others. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-kurtz/the-spiritual-teachers-universally-recognized-as-great-did-not-give/)

[Ernest Kurtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-kurtz/)

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> [“Moving toward a more harmonious way of life and greater resilience requires our active participation. This means finding ways to become more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandor-ellix-katz/moving-toward-a-more-harmonious-way-of-life-and-greater-resilience/)

[Sandor Ellix Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandor-ellix-katz/)

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> [ “\[L\]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/l-iberals-insist-that-children-should-be-given-the-right-to-remain/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

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> [How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-w/how-dark-it-is-before-the-dawn-in-reality-that-was-the-beginning-of/)

[Bill W](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-w/)

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> [We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-steffen/we-re-not-going-to-persuade-people-in-the-developing-world-to-go/)

[Alex Steffen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-steffen/)

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> [“They were now representatives of something much larger than themselves - a way of life, a shared set of values. Liberty was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-james-brown/they-were-now-representatives-of-something-much-larger-than/)

[Daniel James Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-james-brown/)

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> [There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-dumm/there-are-degrees-of-loneliness-ways-in-which-the-experience-of/)

[Thomas L. Dumm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-dumm/)

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> [Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/og-mandino/choice-the-key-is-choice-you-have-options-you-need-not-spend-your/)

[Og Mandino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/og-mandino/)

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> [If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-parkman/if-any-pale-student-glued-to-his-desk-here-seek-an-apology-for-a-way/)

[Francis Parkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-parkman/)

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> [Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zora-neale-hurston/grown-people-know-that-they-do-not-always-know-the-why-of-things-and/)

[Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zora-neale-hurston/)

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> [“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amor-towles/as-we-age-we-are-bound-to-find-comfort-from-the-notion-that-it-takes-2/)

[Amor Towles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amor-towles/)

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> [It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/it-has-taken-me-a-long-time-to-realize-where-i-most-disagree-with/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-watt-cloutier/everything-is-connected-connectivity-is-going-to-be-the-key-to/)

[Sheila Watt-Cloutier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-watt-cloutier/)

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> [Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-curley/alliances-are-crucial-to-success-in-the-political-sphere-however-if/)

[Arthur Curley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-curley/)

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> [“Education is something that is supposed to happen as you go through life with your children. This is the Deuteronomy 6 model.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-botkin/education-is-something-that-is-supposed-to-happen-as-you-go-through/)

[Victoria Botkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-botkin/)

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> [Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nhat-hanh/aware-of-the-suffering-caused-by-the-destruction-of-life-i-am/)

[Nhat Hanh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nhat-hanh/)

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> [We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/we-cannot-hope-to-die-peacefully-if-our-lives-have-been-full-of/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [“The Jedi Order was more than an unpaid police force, more than just an exercise club that was into metaphysics. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jackson-miller/the-jedi-order-was-more-than-an-unpaid-police-force-more-than-just-an/)

[John Jackson Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jackson-miller/)

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> [“The course of your reading should be parallel to the aim of your way of life… Most books that contain instructions in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-isaac-of-ninivah/the-course-of-your-reading-should-be-parallel-to-the-aim-of-your-way/)

[St. Isaac of Ninivah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-isaac-of-ninivah/)

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> [“A way of life that keeps saying, "Around the next corner, above the next step," works against the natural order of things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-hoff/a-way-of-life-that-keeps-saying-around-the-next-corner-above-the-next-2/)

[Benjamin Hoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-hoff/)

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> [“The temple of the most high begins with the body which houses our life, the essence of our existence. Africans are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-k-nvenge/the-temple-of-the-most-high-begins-with-the-body-which-houses-our/)

[P.K. Nvenge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-k-nvenge/)

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> [“(from chapter 20, "Bezalel") "Worship is an art, using the sensory to bring us into an awareness of and attentiveness to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-h-peterson/from-chapter-20-bezalel-worship-is-an-art-using-the-sensory-to-bring/)

[Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-h-peterson/)

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> [“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chogyam-trungpa/we-must-surrender-our-hopes-and-expectations-as-well-as-our-fears-and/)

[Chogyam Trungpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chogyam-trungpa/)

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> [In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ousmane-sembene/in-our-society-talking-about-sex-is-still-a-taboo-and-of-course-many/)

[Ousmane Sembene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ousmane-sembene/)

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                        "text": "I want to go on being a student,\" I told him. \"I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader,\" I said. \"DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED,\" he said. \"READING IS A GIFT.\" \"I learned it from you,\" I told him. \"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.",
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                        "text": "“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are nothing, you're animal and must die, and no one will know you were ever here. It's an intimation of the whole absurdity of what you are and do. It's the worst kind of despair.”",
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                        "text": "You want to know the biggest illusion about success? That it's like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, if you want to achieve all your outcomes, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.",
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                        "text": "What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment. And so this bespeaks an entirely different philosophy — a different way of life — a different kind of relationship — where the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.",
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                        "text": "If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.",
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                        "text": "Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality?",
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                        "text": "“The Dream Box wasn't a place, but it was a destination. It wasn't life, but it was a way of life. Reese wasn't awake in the Meat Space the way he was in Cyber, where a billion liters of endorphins blasted through the biological wiring of his veins with every corner his mind turned, where every conscious or subconscious choice he made was infused with importance. Linked in, he could partake of the guiltless ecstasy that was up for grabs, even for people like him. Linked in as Balmus, he could even be his own hero.”",
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                        "text": "I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.",
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                        "text": "We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.",
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                        "text": "“To me, a king is a lighthouse. A guide who can cast his glow across his kingdom and bring every last one of us out of the shadows. A beacon who we can look up to when the world seems lost. A bridge who can unite us when our differences seem to stark to reconcile. Tonight, we need a king who is all of those things. A king who can look each of you in the eye and make you feel that you won't just fight for him or his kingdom, but you'll fight for our way of life.”",
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                        "text": "James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.",
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                        "text": "“You are a special breed that has never been. You are the highest stratum of the society. You belong to a class that is beyond compare. You are full of superiority that gives especial worth which is meritoriously near the standard or model and eminently good of its kind. You are an expression of distinction, the perfection of superbness and effulgence of class. You are meant for the highest crown of success, created for affecting lives, configured for goodness, packaged to be set apart and set great store by, and ordained to be widely known and honored for greater achievement. You are a rare breed with divine and inherent ability to reign, rule, dominate and prosper in every way of life.”",
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                        "text": "“You are the last. The last seeker who will come to Gaia, the oracle of Apollo, the sanctuary of the old wisdom. I have many things to tell you, and you must listen with your heart and promise to remember.” Hannah nodded and knelt upon the floor at the base of the dais. “I promise,” she said. “But─” “Good,” said the oracle firmly. “Do not despair over Delfi. Anything that dies is reborn a thousand times. In this way, there is nothing that does not live forever. “What blossoms must also wilt. What dies will be reborn. It is the way of life eternal, and the greatest secret the Earth possesses. All tides must flow in two directions; their source is what remains the same. But no matter how they ebb and flow, all seasons, all tides, all contraries are connected. Forever. It has always been this way: one extreme becoming the other in a never-ending spiral of birth, decay, rebirth.”",
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                        "text": "“The spiritual teachers universally recognized as “great” did not give commandments nor did they impose their way of life on others. They knew that when any “map” was mistaken for the territory, it became more hindrance than help. And so they invited their followers to question the handed-down maps by making available their own maps—their own stories. Rather than trying to tell their listeners’ stories, rather than imposing interpretation, the sages and saints told the kind of stories that invited identification.”",
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                        "text": "“Moving toward a more harmonious way of life and greater resilience requires our active participation. This means finding ways to become more aware of and connected to the other forms of life that are around us and that constitute our food -- plants and animals, as well as bacteria and fungi -- and to the resources, such as water, fuel, materials, tools, and transportation, upon which we depend. It means taking responsibility for our shit, both literally and figuratively.”",
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                        "text": "“[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a choice. But for, say, Amish children to really have a free choice of which way of life to choose, either their parents’ life or that of the “English,” they would have to be properly informed on all the options, educated in them, and the only way to do what would be to extract them from their embeddedness in the Amish community, in other words, to effectively render them “English.” This also clearly demonstrates the limitations of the standard liberal attitude towards Muslim women wearing a veil: it is deemed acceptable if it is their free choice and not an option imposed on them by their husbands or family. However, the moment a woman wears a veil as the result of her free individual choice, the meaning of her act changes completely: it is no longer a sign of her direct substantial belongingness to the Muslim community, but an expression of her idiosyncratic individuality, of her spiritual quest and her protest against the vulgarity of the commodification of sexuality, or else a political gesture of protest against the West. A choice is always a meta-choice, a choice of the modality of choice itself: it is one thing to wear a veil because of one’s immediate immersion in a tradition; it is quite another to refuse to wear a veil; and yet another to wear one not out of a sense of belonging, but as an ethico-political choice. This is why, in our secular societies based on “choice,” people who maintain a substantial religious belonging are in a subordinate position: even if they are allowed to practice their beliefs, these beliefs are “tolerated” as their idiosyncratic personal choice or opinion; they moment they present them publicly as what they really are for them, they are accused of “fundamentalism.” What this means is that the “subject of free choice” (in the Western “tolerant” multicultural sense) can only emerge as the result of an extremely violent process of being torn away from one’s particular lifeworld, of being cut off from one’s roots.”",
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                        "text": "How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.",
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                        "text": "We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.",
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                        "text": "“They were now representatives of something much larger than themselves - a way of life, a shared set of values. Liberty was perhaps the most fundamental of those values. But the things that held them together - trust in each other, mutual respsect, humility, fair play, watching out for one another - those were also part of what America meant to all of them.”",
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                        "text": "There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.",
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                        "text": "Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices",
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                        "text": "If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.",
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                        "text": "Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.",
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                        "text": "“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We are familiar with the songs our grandparents favored, after all, even though we never danced to them ourselves. At festive holidays, the recipes we pull from the drawer are routinely decades old, and in some cases even written in the hand of a relative long since dead.”",
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                        "text": "It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He took its instability, inhumanity and irrationality to be signs that it was a merely transitional form, which had delivered into humanity's hands the means to a much better way of life than any that have ever existed on earth. Marx could not bring himself to believe that our species is so benighted, irrational and slavish that it would put up with such a monstrous way of life.",
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                        "text": "“(from chapter 20, \"Bezalel\") \"Worship is an art, using the sensory to bring us into an awareness of and attentiveness to the mystery of God. Worship has to do with practicing a way of life that is immersed in the salvation and revelation of Yahweh. Bezalel led the people whom Moses had led out of Egypt into making and worshipping in a sanctuary, a place designed to keep them aware and responsive to a way of life in which all their senses were brought into lively participation in the stuff of creation and the energies of salvation. he designed a worship center, the ark of the covenant, in which all visibilities converged into an Invisibility: Yahweh - a presence, a relationship - who can only be worshipped and never used.”",
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