"Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity."

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Source : "Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".

Pierre Bourdieu

#Pay Quotes #Clarity Quotes #Talent Quotes

“The idea of molding men means a lot to me.”
“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.”
“Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.”
“If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.”
“She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.”

Source : David Gilmour (2008). “Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son”, p.73, Dundurn
“Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.”

Source : James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.6, A&C Black
“War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.”
“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.”

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