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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... - MORE The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Hannah Arendt

twentieth century: the 1960s

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention—on a landsc... - MORE To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention—on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God—that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying.... The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

W.H. Auden

prayer

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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it suppl... - MORE To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

A.J. Ayer, Sir

authority

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Angela Carter

miracles | faith

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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. - MORE Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

Alistair Cooke

festivals

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The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual lib... - MORE The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

social problems: poverty | families | conflict, general

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The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a co... - MORE The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

Joan Didion

Los Angeles

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... the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We ... - MORE ... the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.

Ann Douglas

truth | religion | generations

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Come now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum. Let us live in cor... - MORE Come now, let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum. Let us live in corners, and do chores, and suffer, and weep, and drudge, with eyes and hearts that love the Lord. Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being, and so diving, bring up out of secular darkness, the sublimities of the moral constitution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

silence | worship

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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame an... - MORE Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oxford University | universities and colleges

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