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Related H.L. MENCKEN CHRISTOPHER MOORE JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. LELAND RYKEN JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL H. L. MENCKEN H.L. MENCKEN HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing... BARRY HUMPHRIES H. L. MENCKEN JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-re... TOM PAULIN JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH SUSIE BRIGHT H. L. MENCKEN EMMA GOLDMAN CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY H.L. MENCKEN JOSH FOX HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON ISABELLA ROSSELLINI HUGH HEFNER DIANE LANE ERIC TOPOL Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than ho... MIUCCIA PRADA JOHN UPDIKE JOHN UPDIKE MARLENE DIETRICH DAVID VISCOTT ALAN DERSHOWITZ EMMA GOLDMAN When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t... EUGENE O'NEILL When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to t... EUGENE O'NEILL ROBERTSON DAVIES Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH DESIDERIUS ERASMUS I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX DAVID SOUL RICHARD BACH KAT GRAHAM JAMES BRYCE I think [Wednesday] was as close to a must-win game as you can get. But [Thursday]? You can definite... MIKE LOWELL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU MARK TWAIN It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your ac... MARGARET HAMILTON I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain... ST. LUCIA R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER MICKEY ROURKE Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, ... JOY COVEY GARY COHN If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror. GENE CERNAN I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what ... MACKENZIE DAVIS DOROTHY ALLISON We want to make sure people understand that this does not equal getting rid of all their insulin sho... ROBERT GOLDSTEIN It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There... DAVID LANGE PAMELA ANDERSON T.S. ELIOT It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your... BRUCE WILKINSON You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. CHARLES C. NOBLE When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible. ALEXA VON TOBEL EMILY LEVINE You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. CHARLES C. NOBLE BERTRAND RUSSELL NATASHA TRETHEWEY ROBERT VAUGHN ARUNDHATI ROY JAMES BRYCE When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted b... JEFF LEMIRE ALICE MORSE EARLE Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. CHUCK CLOSE CHRISTINE QUINN JAMES A. BALDWIN JEFF BEZOS SUZANNE FIELDS OPRAH WINFREY I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN BEN SHAPIRO BRUCE LEE HILLARY CLINTON I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It... BALTASAR KORMAKUR REID HOFFMAN MORRISSEY SAINT AUGUSTINE It starts with attitude. Getting rid of the jerks. The biggest thing you have to do when you take ov... BOB MANCINI RAM SHRIRAM JEFF NICHOLS The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the az... DIANA NYAD Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is ... CAMPBELL BROWN JAY-Z I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin wi... DREW CURTIS Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please
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Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life. LELAND RYKEN My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, ... LELAND RYKEN In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. LELAND RYKEN For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the ... LELAND RYKEN The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth. LELAND RYKEN Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. LELAND RYKEN Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of... LELAND RYKEN A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of li... LELAND RYKEN Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in tu... LELAND RYKEN The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first... LELAND RYKEN No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a ... LELAND RYKEN The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible... LELAND RYKEN It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bea... LELAND RYKEN The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their ho... LELAND RYKEN Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God. LELAND RYKEN LELAND STANFORD LELAND STANFORD LELAND STANFORD I got a few books on tourist attractions, and I studied a National Art Museum book. I saw some of th... CAROLINE LELAND We met a man who came to film us interviewing Lovett and walked a ways down the road to the retireme... 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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. 
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February 
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, th... 
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy 
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has bee... 
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Pur... 
He doesn't like being told what to do. He's reacting against the neo-Puritanism that you mustn't smo... 
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy un... 
Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cau... 
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned aro... 
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other... 
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. 
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvis... 
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-cen... 
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. 
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. 
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying... 
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ... 
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's mi... 
It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body. 
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. 
When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bull... 
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It i... 
You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continuall... 
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're gettin... 
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. 
As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I ... 
Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und... 
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villa... 
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of th... 
In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in. 
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to thin... 
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observatio... 
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us. 
I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when ... 
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compa... 
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing ... 
I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if ... 
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w... 
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long... 
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it... 
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religiou... 
Obama's respect for the Constitution does not apply to protections against unreasonable search a... 
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. 
I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side d... 
If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... 
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position ... 
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Th... 
You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you... 
As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it i... 
I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga... 
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. 
When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter? 
If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Re... 
To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back. 
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa... 
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. 
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and ... 
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many yea... 
But, as old Swedish legends say,
Of all the birds upon that day,
The swallow felt the deepest ... 
I pray your Highness mark this curious herb:
Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,
And ... 
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval...