"I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned."

-- Jacques Derrida

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“I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”
“When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.”
“...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.”
“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.106, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.”
“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces â€“ and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper â€“ love her, love her, love her!”

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