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• Rituals and ceremonies help define a culture. Without them, societies or groups of people have a diminished sense of who they are.
• What They Say: "We've noticed some failure evidence" What They Mea
  "Something's burning..." -- THE PESSIMIST'S GUIDE TO ENGINEER-TALK...
• To truly understand your own culture.no matter how you define it.
  equires personal knowledge of at least one other culture, one that is distinctly different from your own....
• It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
• Y'know, since our druid's been so obnoxious, it would probably serve him right if we set his precious forest on fire.
• of the many who beseech the Goddess to send them love, so few will accept it when it comes, because it has come in what they consider the wrong shape, or the wrong size, or at the wrong time.
  Against our prejudices, even the Goddess strives in vain. -- Diane Duane, DOOR INTO FIRE...
• I have come to the conclusion that I am not in good enough shape at the present time to get in shape for the future right now.
• We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) -- Time, September 12, 1960.
• In our society, the Republicans set out to prove that the Democrats can not be trusted to run the government.
  And the Democrats set out to prove that the Republicans can not be trusted to run our government....