"What you already know is merely a good departure point."

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Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Departure Quotes

“I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.”
“Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are...”
“What man is, only his history tells.”
“It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.”
“Mine is not an autonomous imagination.”
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
“Don't let technology dictate your life.”
“Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.”

Source : Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge

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