Daniel Kemmis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
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A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because it's not a right that we assign to the river. The river has earned it through centuries of deluging and shaping the floodplain, and the floodplain has a right to its rampaging river. They've earned their rights through a kind of reciprocal action.
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The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
-- Daniel Kemmis
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.