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You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
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You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've…
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The…
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind…
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It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to…
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the…
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody…
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I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of…
— Tori Amos
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The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot…
— Max Wertheimer
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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other…
— William Thurston
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which…
— Barbara Kruger
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context…
— George W. S. Trow
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word,…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions:…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.
— Eric Mazur
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