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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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If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
— J D Salinger
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is…
— Neil Kinnock
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Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
— Terry Eagleton
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly…
— Lev Grossman
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If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one…
— Doris Lessing
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Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You…
— Christopher McDougall
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But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get…
— Julian Barnes
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I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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