"I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying."

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Source : Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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“Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.”
“A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.”
“My mother thought my inclinations would do well in Law, but I was too shy and deliberative - slowfooted - for that, so I determined to be an English and German high school teacher. In my first year of university I had one subject to "fill in" and chose philosophy against the advice of my counselor. My university teachers in English and German were totally uninspiring; philosophy was wonderful and my results showed it. I chose it and basically backed into a situation in which only a philosophy career seemed a viable option. I've never regretted it, but there was a lot of serendipity.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.”

Source : Euclid, Phillips (1826). “Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid”, p.41
“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”
“I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.”
“I'll admit it, the Holocaust was definitely a bad thing, but do we really need Jewish people around? They have big noses. I said it! I said it!”

Source : "Mind of Mencia". Sketch-comedy Series, 2005-2008.
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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