Quotes

As long as your ideas of what’s possible are limited by what’s actual, no other idea has a chance. Susan Neiman, philosopher, author, book quote from “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.153, Princeton University Press

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Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. Richard Rorty, Philosopher

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The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent. Catharine MacKinnon, author, activist

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” The mask is not to protect you. The mask is to protect other people. So when you don’t wear the mask, [you say], ‘I don’t care about you’ ” Nancy Pelosi

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All I ever wanted was a world without maps. Michael Ondaatje, novelist

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What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny …the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s. Sven Bikerts, writer

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Hills against the wind press on into night over the peaks and away to the last descent…

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