"Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it."

-- Susie Orbach

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“When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.”
“Habit is the daily battleground of character”
“We will not have any more crashes in our time.”
“No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courageâ€”courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.”
“Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.”
“I just write mechanical things.”

Source : "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Tyler Bleszinski, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.
“I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2010). “The Masters”, p.40, House of Stratus
“What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal, Lament those hardships which we cannot feel, His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please, But must I bellow too, who sit at ease? By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow, Free as the light and air some years ago. No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours, and excise our brains. Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear, No tributes laid on castles in the air.”

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