"The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious……" — Terry Eagleton
"The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open."
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
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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.…
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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…
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian…
— Sandra Bullock
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I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on…
— Herman Cain
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People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about…
— Sharron Angle
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My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House,…
— Jimmy Carter
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Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what…
— Benjamin Franklin
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[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for…
— Julian Coolidge
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to…
— M. Scott Peck
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Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular…
— Kevin Mattson
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An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must…
— John F. Kerry
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Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank,…
— Bernard Baruch
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