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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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And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why…
— Horton Foote
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are…
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Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive…
— Edward Bernays
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If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right…
— Frank Peretti
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Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into…
— Frederick Lenz
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The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to…
— William Cecil Dampier
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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…
— Edward Said
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There is only one line of sight that will bring order to all our life and work: a vision of Christ seated…
— Mel Lawrenz
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Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my…
— James Fallows
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A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order…
— Frederick Lenz
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