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When faced with a time or epoch that requires radical change we must begin to enter a period of mental pruning -- a stage of "cutting back" our outmoded belief-systems, ideas, priorities and excesses: a pruning back of our delusions.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Beyond the Future: Are We Lacking in Vision? Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2012
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When faced with a time or epoch that requires radical change we must begin to enter a period of mental pruning -- a stage of "cutting back" our outmoded belief-systems, ideas, priorities and excesses: a pruning back of our delusions.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Beyond the Future: Are We Lacking in Vision? Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2012
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When faced with a time or epoch that requires radical change we must begin to enter a period of mental pruning -- a stage of "cutting back" our outmoded belief-systems, ideas, priorities and excesses: a pruning back of our delusions.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Beyond the Future: Are We Lacking in Vision? Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2012
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When faced with a time or epoch that requires radical change we must begin to enter a period of mental pruning -- a stage of "cutting back" our outmoded belief-systems, ideas, priorities and excesses: a pruning back of our delusions.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Beyond the Future: Are We Lacking in Vision? Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2012
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How on earth do you propose to try to shift this behemoth of belief-systems.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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How on earth do you propose to try to shift this behemoth of belief-systems.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Their Value-systems? their belief-systems? their history? religion? tribal loyalties etc....
Elza S. Maalouf - Natural Design Principles for Madrasas in Pakistan and Afghanistan William Harryman 2009
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A better approach would be, in Gilbert Ryle's words, “to draw uncompromising contrasts” between the businesses of science and those of other belief-systems.
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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Since belief-systems shape mindset, it is _completely_ legitimate for the US electorate to consider how mormonism defined, and continues to influence Romney, especially since the man is a fully-vested church functionary, having been both a bishop and stake-president.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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To explain or predict the strength and popularity of religion in any country we do not need to understand specific factors such as the activities and role of Pentecostal evangelism in Guatemala and Presbyterian missionaries in South Korea, the specific belief-systems in Buddhism, the impact of madrassa teaching Wahhabism in Pakistan, the fund-raising capacity and organizational strength of the Christian Right in the U.S.
David Sloan Wilson: Atheism as a Stealth Religion VI: Let's Break Out The Good Stuff! 2008
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