Etienne Wenger Quotes

The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.

Etienne Wenger

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

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• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
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• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
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• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
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• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
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• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
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• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Even at the risk of losing all the golden eggs of the future, I had to find out what made the goose lay those eggs

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
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• Gewönlich wird eine Entdeckung nicht auf den einfachsten, sondern auf einem komplizierten Wege gemacht; die einfachen Fälle zeigen sich erst später.

  

  Otto Hahn
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• Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
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• The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

  

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• I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.

  

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• I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

  

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• Us Jews are nomadic people.

  

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• Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

  

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• If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

  

  Lee Strobel
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• I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.

  

  Charles Dickens
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  • Blade

• The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • Purpose
  • Unity
  • Blade