Ancien regime — One of Taylor’s “types” of religious identity, the ancient and medieval ordering tied religious identity to political identity: the king is divinely appointed.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Every great work of art has two faces one towards its own time and one towards future towards eternity.

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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

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We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

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The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.