"Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away."

-- Holly Near

#Giving Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Given Quotes

“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.”
“The substitute for knowledge is money.”
“The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . . . it's a very intimidating place. The intimidation can be very thin, or it can stop you.”

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“So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.”
“That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.”
“My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what I cannot bear to think. At every moment when I am thinking of something else, I am not thinking death, am not thinking the truth.”
“I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.”
“I think the Bible should be re-written for today's society. We can call it 'Scrubs.'”

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