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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#feel #growth #made #organized #science

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

#bogged #command #confident #defined #down

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

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

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#ever #injustice #just #madly #nation

For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#audiences #fun #great #hate #hungry

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#common #company #like #men #men and women

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#dying #living #sublimity #things #those

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#anything #cease #neighbors #their #themselves

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

#finds #hypothesis #making #observations #truth