"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style"

-- Clifford Geertz

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“I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.”
“We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.”

Source : Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business
“A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.”
“How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.”
“As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.”
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
“Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.”
“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”

Source : "From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.

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