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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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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? – Mary Douglas

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Jealousy
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Mary Douglas
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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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Mary Douglas
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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. – Mary Douglas

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Society
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Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. – Placido Domingo

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alone

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. – Daniel Greenberg

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alone

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. – Laura Bush

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alone

Glasgows not a media center. When youre there, when youre hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. – Alex Kapranos

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alone

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Focus on your music and not technology. – Bryan Adams

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I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values – even if they rarely talked about them. – Harry Reid

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. – Kenneth Grahame

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Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. Thats freedom. – Demi Moore

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