"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical"

-- Clifford Geertz

#Structure Quotes #Skeptical Quotes #Agree Quotes

“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.”
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
“I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I dont go running or hard hiking.”
“The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.”

Source : "Beautiful Games: stylised football posters", www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.
“Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.”
“Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.”
“Strategy is a system of makeshifts. Is is more than a science. It is bringing knowledge to bear on practical life, the further elaboration of an original guiding idea under constantly changing circumstances. It is the art of acting under the pressure of the most demanding conditions...That is why general principles, rules derived from them, and systems based on these rules cannot possibly have any value for strategy.”
“Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.”

Source : Michael Eric Dyson (2009). “Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson”, p.123, Basic Civitas Books

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