Charles Lemert famous quotes

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Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.
-- Charles Lemert

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Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

Charles Lemert famous quotes

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