Secular 1 — A more “classical” definition of the secular, as distinguished from the sacred—the earthly plane of domestic life. Priests tend the sacred; butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers carry out “secular” work.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

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 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

I'm a lot less serious than people think.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Worry leads to weariness.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary and poor is eternal.

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it.

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.

The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.

Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.