"Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs."

-- Neal Stephenson

#Song Quotes #Two Quotes #Bamboo Quotes

“For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.”
“It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.”
“I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.”
“Music didn't really occur to me. Michael Jordan and Batman were my favorite two entities then. Michael Jackson was there, but I didn't really get into Bob Dylan, for instance, until I was in my 20s. The record I heard of his that got me interested in singing was Knocked Out Loaded, which is what many people consider to be his worst record.”
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.10, Vintage
“If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.”
“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.225, SPCK
“Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.”

Source : Source: www.timeout.com

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