"Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you."

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Source : Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press

Stanley Fish

#Feelings Quotes #Athletic Quotes #Inquiry Quotes

“dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.”
“Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.”
“Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots”
“To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit”

Source : John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.83, Hachette UK
“Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.”
“I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.”

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