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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although…
— John Keats
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to…
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Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in…
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But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the…
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Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun,…
— Ronald Graham
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
— Andy Hobsbawm
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The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
— John Szarkowski
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words…
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Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped.
— Emma Watson
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his…
— Arne Jacobsen
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The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.
— Dorothy Kilgallen
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