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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream so

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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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas

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Religion
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Mary Douglas
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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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Mary Douglas
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Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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Mary Douglas
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Society

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. – A. Whitney Brown

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Society

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. – Will Rogers

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Society

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. – Rumi

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Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God. – Armstrong Williams

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There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible. – Jason Reitman

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I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married. – Elisabetta Canalis

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