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Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.

— Daniel Bell The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every style it comes upon.

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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