In this quote, Sandra Day O'Connor is stressing the idea that a moment of silence does not always have to be related to religion. She is recommending that a moment of silence can be used for various purposes and does not have to be connected to any particular religious beliefs or practices. O'Connor is highlighting the importance of appreciating variety and acknowledging that people may have different beliefs and backgrounds. This quote functions as a suggestion that a moment of silence can be a universal gesture of reflection and reflection, instead of a religious act. It motivates inclusivity and understanding in a varied society.
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"
"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"
"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"
"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"
