"Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity."

-- Clifford Geertz

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“One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.”
“Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.”
“There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depends heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament" by Paul Lockhart, genius.com. January 1, 2002.
“In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.”
“Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1915). “The James Whitcomb Riley Reader: Selected, Graded, and with the Suggestions for the Observance of Riley Day”
“With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.”
“I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.”

Source : Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.”

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