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“And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.”
“The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.”
“And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.”
“The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.”
“And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.”
“It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.”
“A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we're still trying to fit in as ethnics and we're still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.”
“We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.”
“Inheritance and culture obscure peoples higher capacities.”
“The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading c...”
“One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile”
“When L.A.s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”
“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.”
“Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.”
“Id been an outcast my entire life. Growing up with technophobe parents in the dawn of a Cyborg Age did that to a person.”
“When there is no Personal Responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government. Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of Personal Responsibility.”
“The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between "you are what you click" and "you are what you share.”
“In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws. Movies, television, books, magazines, th...”
“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”
“Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.”
