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• My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attitude, Boredom, Long

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• The past is not what it was.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Progress

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• This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Age, Minorities

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• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Swings, Ideas

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• None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Progress, Machines

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• Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Air, Space, Long

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• The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Block, Car, Racing

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• Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

  Edward Abbey

  Smell, Taste, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I think that it's proper to warn people when they have clearly crossed the line between the Kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of the cults.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Thinking, People, Lines

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Race, People, Tolerance

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• I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

  Keith Rabois

  Office Space, Believe, People

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• I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.

  George Carlin

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I don't think much of it. In fact, in my view that's exactly the right analogy: notions like Marxism and Freudianism belong to the history of organized religion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Views, Analogies

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.227, The New Press

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• Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

  John Roecker

  Friday, Sex, Keys

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Father, Son, Peculiar

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• The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.

  Richard Hilfiger

  Song, People, Albums

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

  Billy Wilder

  Mean, Fabulous, Towns

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• I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.

  Sam Dunn

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "Heavy metal and violence: More than a myth?" by James Donkin, www.cnn.com. ay 12, 2008.

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• The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

  Stewart Udall

  Two, Risk, Insightful

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• Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Powerful, Motherhood, Two

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• It does make a broader point which is the fight against Islamist terror is not just one that we can wage by the police and border control. It needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognize they have a role to play, we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult.

  David Cameron

  School, Fighting, College

  "Authorities scramble to find teen girls before they join ISIS" by Holly Yan and Nima Elbagir, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2015.

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• Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

  John Waters

  Trying, Lasts, Next

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• The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Light, Ideas

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• By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

  John Hodgman

  Hurt, Cult Of Personality, Domes

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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