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Raymond Williams

"Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known."

Source : Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

Raymond Williams

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“You can't just place a few "Buy" buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.”
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“Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.”

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“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.”
“Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood”
“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.”
“What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...”
“Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

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