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«We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope)
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Keywords:
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High Church,
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The Church,
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«Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
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Writer)
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Keywords:
arbitrary,
Foster,
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novelties,
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unquestionable,
Western
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.»
«What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, depository of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe»
Author: Blaise Pascal
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Mathematician,
Philosopher,
Physicist)
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Keywords:
chimera,
chimeras,
contradiction,
depository,
earthworm,
earthworms,
feeble,
monster,
novelties,
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prodigy,
sink,
uncertainty
«Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other forms of fun. . . / With this the gist and sum of it, / What earthly good can come of it?»
Author: Dorothy Parker
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Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
delights,
earthly,
forms,
fun,
gist,
good form,
monogamy,
moon,
novelties,
novelty,
sum,
The Gist