David E. Cooper Quotes
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
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I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
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We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.
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There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
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Nobody is offered a World Cup.
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In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
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The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.
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In a world where a lot of people's sense of self is dominated by how many people are following their Twitter feed, what does fame really do, and why is it important?
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On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
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1. Find a subject you care about.2. Do not ramble, though.3. Keep it simple.4. Have the guts to cut.5. Sound like yourself.6. Say what you mean to say.7. Pity the readers.
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I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
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The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.
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Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.
