Archive for the ‘culture’ Category
December 6, 2017
Edward Said, on culture
“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
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December 17, 2016
Bill Gates, on learning
“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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December 8, 2016
Bill Bryson, from A Short History of Nearly Everything
“It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we’ve been endowed with. But what’s life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be , is every bit as strong as ours-arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don’t. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship, endure any insult, for a moment’s additions existence. Life, in short just wants to be.”
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November 26, 2016
Paulo Freire, on the oppressed (from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1968)
“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.”
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April 23, 2016
Thomas Paine, from The American Crisis
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
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February 24, 2016
Mary Lou Wood, after Milan, Ind., won the 1954 state basketball title
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
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April 9, 2015
Ely S. Parker to Robert E. Lee, at Appomattox, Virginia, on 9 April 1865
“Sir, we are all Americans.”
(Lee had said to Parker, a Native American: “It is good to have one real American here.”)
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