"When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out."

-- May Sarton

#Pet Quotes #Deny Quotes #Vulnerability Quotes

“Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.”
“Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.”
“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.”
“I loved playing Darla.”
“Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize a story are very different, and include not only drawing and writing dialogue and narration, but graphic design and the ability to depict time passing visually. It's a whole suite of skills that has to go into making a comics page, skills that are quite distinct from those that go into writing a page of prose, or making a film.”
“It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.”

Source : "Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism". Book by James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen, 2002.
“I'm confused. Really, really confused.”
“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.”

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