Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Quotes
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
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Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
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There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
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The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
