"Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail."

-- John Dewey

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“The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.”
“Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.”
“If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.”
“A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.”
“God employs different strategies for different places or purposes”
“I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it is simply in virtue of my brain's higher capacity and complexity. A large difference - my cerebral equipment allows me to have such diverse concepts as "hope", "funky", "England", "multiplication", "three strikes" and "the categorical imperative" - but a difference in degree. Wolves, of course, are superior to me with regards to smelling, hearing, and running, and are generally superior to humans in that they don't kill each other.”
“When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.”
“If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, â€œIâ€™d like to do this, or that.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.57, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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