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To take usury is contrary to Scripture; it is contrary to Aristotle; it is contrary to nature, for it is to live without labour; it is to sell time, which belongs to God, for the advantage of wicked men; it is to rob those who use the money lent, and to whom, since they make it profitable, the profits should belong.

R.H. Tawney

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

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Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

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Adler, Alfred. The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, edited by H. L. Ansbacher and R. R. Ansbacher. Harper Torchbooks, 1964.

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No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution, there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture. Once understood in the context of the narratives that give it meaning, law becomes not merely a system of rules to be observed, but a world in which we live.

Robert M. Cover

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Nomos and Narrative

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Cover, Robert M. "Foreword: Nomos and Narrative." Harvard Law Review, Nov. 1983. Originally a foreword to the Supreme Court 1982 term.

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The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

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In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

Christopher Lasch

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The Culture of Narcissism

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Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, ch. 10.

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We are a facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilization-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular preseent, and the worldwide expansion of both.

Bernard Lewis

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Lewis, Bernard. "The Roots of Muslim Rage." The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1990.

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The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak.

Eric Geddes

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Geddes, Eric. Speech in Cambridge. 10 Dec. 1918, Cambridge, England, UK.

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By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.

Henry Fairlie

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Fairlie, Henry. "How The Spectator invented the Establishment." The Spectator, 23 Sept. 1955.

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A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

Stewart Udall

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Udall, Stewart. The Quiet Crisis. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, ch. 14.

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Ethnocentrism is the...view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders.

William Graham Sumner

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

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To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman

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Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, 1982, introduction.

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Nothing changes more constantly that the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but what men believe happened.

Gerald White Johnson

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Johnson, Gerald W. American Heroes and Hero-Worship. Harper & Brothers, 1943.

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One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

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Weinberg, Steven. "A Designer Universe." Conference on Cosmic Design. 1999, Washington, DC, USA. Speech.

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It isn't just that I don't believe in God... It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Thomas Nagel

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Nagel, Thomas. The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 1997, ch. 7.

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Although he is regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.

George Mitchell

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Mitchell, George. Statement at Senate Hearings on Iran-Contra scandal. Senate Hearing on Iran-Contra scandal. 13 July 1987, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Mitchell, George. The Negotiator: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 2016.

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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

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Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

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Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

J.K. Rowling

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Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury/Scholastic, 1999, ch. 1.

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What if you stayed this time?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Directed by Michel Gondry, Anonymous Content/This Is That, 2004.

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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869, ch. 55.

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Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress. Random House Publishing Group, 2003, ch. 55.

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Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There won't be any last minute, surprise witnesses. No one will break down on the stand with a tearful confession.

Philadelphia

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Philadelphia. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Clinica Estetico/TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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