"Agency presupposes choice."

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Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.136, Harvard University Press

Jerome Bruner

#Agency Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.”
“There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.”

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“From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.”

Source : "Rush – Prime Mover". Song by Neil Peart, 1987.
“It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.”
“I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.”
“The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.”
“It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.”
“I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.”

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