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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…
• Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,…
• [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
• Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
• It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
• Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
• 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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