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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be ...
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention--on a landsca ...
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it suppl ...
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world ...
It is unjust that Italy should claim musical pre-eminence, even forcing Italian on music as its international language, when Italy ...
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual lib ...
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a co ...
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over ...
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