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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Soren Kierkegaard

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

Companies in business services and outsourcing, we believe provide nice secular growth and have some resilience to a generally difficult economy.

David Kaslow

"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

Pat Robertson

The reality is, we have to get rid of faith-based arbitration, no matter what. The only way we can protect [women] is for the state to come out and say one law, one process, one secular law for all, and that is it.

Homa Arjomand

No religious law should have the force of secular law.

Judy Rebick

God directed me to do for gospel music what I'd been doing for the secular music. I had no peace with the secular side; there was something else tugging at me.

Mark Singletary

We are very disappointed with the decision. The state is arbitrarily deciding which ministries are religious and which are secular.

Dennis Poust

Museums are the secular temples of our day.

Bill Jack

The people want a secular government.

Roya Hakakian

I'm not really focused quarter-to-quarter. I'm really focused on the secular trends. And I'm encouraged that the AOL subscription business looks like it's holding together, and they're keeping their market share.

Bill Fries

I don't think of him as a member of the social right. He's ... a more secular, business-oriented Chamber of Commerce kind of Republican.

Bruce Cain

The Ten Commandments represent the moral foundation of this great and blessed nation. Sacred laws that this nation was founded on are being assaulted and denigrated daily by an army of secular champions determined to destroy every vestige of America's rich spiritual heritage.

Ron Wexler

Those who only see this issue from a human rights, liberal and secular point of view are trying to disrupt efforts to curb pornography.

Ma'ruf Amin

There are not a lot of opportunities in tech that are wholly secular plays as opposed to cyclical plays, ... This is a great company and a great stock.

Scott Kessler

We think the days of buy-and-hold are over. It's been an 18-year, uninterrupted secular bull market. And when that ends, you get a secular bear market.

David Tice

Politics makes strange bedfellows. I can see most of the Sunnis voting against this (charter), plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, plus moderate-minded, secular-minded Shia and even some Kurds.

David Mack

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ivan Illich

This all fuels growth on SETS ... it's a secular story.

Clara Furse

For most of the 20th century, the secular perspective moved forward and was in the ascendancy. Recently however, conservative Christians have been on the offensive, recovering some of that lost ground.

John Green

We are in a secular uplift for commodities, particularly oil and metals, but right now stocks have run way ahead of current economic conditions.

Michael Sprung

They have a pretty good following and good name recognition, ... Most of them are kind of like what traditional secular music is playing, but with a Christian message. From top to bottom, this is probably the best one we've had.

Chris Johnson

It offered a secular vision of Syria that would dismantle very serious religious splits.

Joshua Landis

[It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Robert Hughes

A shared educational space for high school students (from the Arab and Jewish, secular and religious populations) to recognize the 'other,' the one who is different and to examine the ways to grapple with multiculturalism in the city.

The Jerusalem

The United States went into Iraq because we wanted them to be a model for secular democracy. We wanted to dress them up and be our own boutique. And it is fair to say we have not accomplished that.

Roya Hakakian

We think both competitors are to be taken seriously, but do not believe the case of secular impairment of the newspaper companies is as draconian as current sentiment would suggest.

William Drewry

We have religious holidays and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African-Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit.

Jessica Harris

Its themes are about family, about not giving up on your dreams, courage. They are very secular virtues, but they also could potentially be Christian virtues.

Dennis Rice

This had now become a huge political story. In a secular Western society, a prime minister and a newspaper had to issue an apology for exercising their right to satire.

Roger Koppel

Our argument is going to be that the removal of the monument is the systematic and continuing eradication of God from the public square, and from society, and replacing God with the secular humanism that has been advocated in the lawsuit brought against Chief Justice Moore.

Brian Chavez

We have a tradition of satire in Denmark. We do the same with the royal family, politicians, anyone. In a modern secular society, nobody can impose their religious taboos in the public domain.

Flemming Rose

His business is greater than any in the secular world and that's what I've tried to do.

Bobby Brindle

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

Arthur J. Goldberg

Hopefully it will affect somebody and will inspire something. I'm not trying to manipulate what people's interpretation of the movie is. But I think that for me it was about greed and lusting after this secular world. And I'm not trying to be pretentious, but if it can be an explanation of that world, then great.

Giovanni Ribisi

FLESH, n. The Second Person of the secular Trinity.

Ambrose Bierce

The news of an attack on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia is just an example of the many different geopolitical events that underpin the secular gold bull market.

Peter Grandich

Because secular artists participate, somebody coming might not even go to church.

Dottie Peoples

By 18 I was agnostic, then I became atheist. I try to work for secular humanism and atheism because I want to do what is needed to save humans from all the stupid stuff religion is doing.

Greg Swartz

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

William Ralph Inge

Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers.

John Wycliffe

I try to tell secular people that not all Christians are judgmental, ... The ones who have their hearts right have the love of Jesus just pouring out of them. Their compassion for others?sinners included?is so obvious. That's what our reputation should be.

Sherron Watkins

The meeting was part of my efforts to bring together secular forces.

Raj Babbar

But it has since become a secular celebration with people from all ethnic backgrounds and faiths enjoying parades, corned beef sandwiches and the wearing of the green.

Marc Lewis

Coke relies on soft drinks for this huge piece of their business and those products have been in a secular decline and that's where Coke makes its money.

Christopher Meeker

Gold continues to defy the bears, skeptics and even ardent bulls all of whom continue to pay little or no attention to one of the most powerful factors driving the secular bull market.

Peter Grandich

Our goal was to create a record that would hold up in both secular and Christian camps.

Scott Stapp

There should be no doubt that gold remains in a secular bull market.

Peter Grandich

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

Carter Heyward

It's always been a problem for secular artists.

Marty Stuart

Our view on satellite radio remains bullish, and we believe that pay-radio represents a rare opportunity to capture secular growth as an investor and that duopoly economics will benefit returns over time.

Benjamin Swinburne

People will look at it and not see some kind of secular document they will see a holy document and holy documents should not be on public property.

Ken Falk

In the late '90s investors believed that tech was such a great secular growth story that cycles didn't matter. In this rebound, the only thing that matters is the economic context.

Arnie Berman

For more than 30 years, ... the settlers' dream has overwhelmed the dream of secular Israelis. Day in and day out, the vision of Greater Israel and the reign of the Messiah crushed the hope of being a free people and building a just society.

Amos Oz

This book has been called indisputably the most important book in English literature and the most important secular book of all time.

Peter Selley

We continue to believe that Dell does not have adequate earnings power in notebooks, server and non-system revenue to offset the secular weakness in consumer and commercial desktops.

Ashok Kumar

The case for intelligent design as a religious proposition is overwhelming, Clearly, no valid secular purpose can be derived from those facts.

Eric Rothschild