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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized re

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

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

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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – 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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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. – Charles Spurgeon

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. – Richard Burton

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Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

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I think marriage is ghastly. – Rupert Everett

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The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry. – Leonardo Sciascia

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