"If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan."

-- T. J. Clark

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“We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.”
“In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.”
“Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.”

Source : "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.
“You're terrific as far as I am concerned.”

Source : "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.
“When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.”

Source : "Nelson: 'Luckiest guy in the world'" by Marc Stein, www.espn.com. September 6, 2012.
“For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.9, Penguin
“Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.”
“Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.”

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