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modernizing beliefs Quotes

Six of the best book quotes about modernizing beliefs
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“I’m doing fine. On my festival days they still feast on eggs and rabbits, on candy and on flesh, to represent rebirth and copulation. They wear flowers in their bonnets and they give each other flowers. They do it in my name. More and more of them every year. In my name, old wolf.”
02
“A small boy sat inches away from the television set, a video of the Disney Hercules playing, an animated satyr stomping and shouting his way across the screen.”
03
“This is not a good country for gods.”
04
“We have come to realize in modern times that the ‘melting pot’ need not mean the end of particular ethnic identities or traditions.”
05
“The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded— Eat well, poor boy, poor victim of the modern world.”
06
“Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese.”
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