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history hit a curve, and as Karl Marx once quipped, when that happens, the intellectuals fall off.

So finding meaning in events is positively correlated with wellbeing but negatively correlated with foresight.

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

The very same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination and evil in some of us can inspire the heroic imagination in others.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

I must remember the awkwardness, too, the botched gestures, the abruptness, the missed beats, because these too are signs of love.

A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).

No one can expect to write well who will not first take the risk of writing badly.

But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

There was a brass bedstead with a tan spread, on which slept a big, tiger-striped yellow cat.

Now, it's are you now, have you ever been, and will you ever be in the future a supporter of non-violent boycotts against Israeli violations of international law? That's an outrage.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

Ecco quindi la mia conclusione: la rassegnazione non ha nulla da invidiare all'eroismo.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

un grand usage de l'insulte généalogique (« Fils de bourgeois

critiquer. En fait, leurs stratégies discursives

Nationalism is the most ignoble aspect of the modern spirit.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

It is always a good time when I visit the 'Melissa Harris Perry Show' on MSNBC.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

I'm on the university board in Limerick, so I visit the city often.

Romania seems to be a very pro-Trump country and a pro-America country, and that's why it's a great honor to come visit.