"Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined."

-- Toni Morrison

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“It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 [racecar] driver.”
“I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book”
“I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.”
“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.”
“Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.”
“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
“It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.”

Source : Gregory A. Boyd (2000). “God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God”, p.31, Baker Books
“I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.”

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