#sect

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#feels #forget #get #good #green

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector. ↗

— Jim Talent

#private #public #public sector #revenue #sector

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#allow #created #governed #insect #laws

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#done #i #invited #mornings #performance

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#go #great #great organization #organization #phases

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#body #call #cathedrals #each #finger

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper