"Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies."

-- Ruth Benedict

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“We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.”
“Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.”

Source : Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”
“The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.”
“Each day is a day of decision.”
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan
“Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.”
“What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.”
“I try to only vent when I really need to process something, and let the rest go.”

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