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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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Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
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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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The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.
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If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears…
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It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my…
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological…
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Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts
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— Guy Gavriel Kay
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If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they…
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Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of…
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