"The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone."

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Source : Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Greenblatt

#Exercise Quotes #Reason Quotes #Specialists Quotes

“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

Source : "The Anti-Male New York Times", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2003.
“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.”
“Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.”
“A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.”
“The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”
“When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”
“Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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