Quote by Mary Douglas
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, a

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. – Mary Douglas

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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. – Mary Douglas

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Religion
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. – Mary Douglas

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Change
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. – Virginia Woolf

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alone

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle

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alone

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. – Greta Scacchi

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alone

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler

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Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldnt normally try. – Melinda Clarke

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I know this sounds generic, but Im so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog. – Fergie

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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. – Harold Bloom

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo

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