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1 " When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. "
― Flannery O'Connor , Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
2 " It is when the individual's faith is weak, not strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional representation of life; and when there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the supernatural is apt gradually to be lost. "
3 " But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. "
― David Baldacci , Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)
4 " Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a symbol of morality while getting their actual morality from more modern principles. "
― Steven Pinker , The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
5 " He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist. "
― Tom Clancy , Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)
