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Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom…
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,…
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a…
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the…
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…
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Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that…
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is…
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was…
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But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to…
— Johann Bernoulli
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In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time…
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In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the…
— George Soros
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Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
— Nancy Pearcey
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There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything…
— James Berardinelli
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Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is…
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