"Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary."

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Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

Frederick C. Beiser

#Movement Quotes #Problem Quotes #Description Quotes

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.”
“I have more influence now than when I had the power.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.”
“The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.”
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”
“As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.”
“If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind”
“New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.”

Source : "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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