"All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices."

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Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield

Mark Kingwell

#Wall Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Space Quotes

“But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.”
“No strict schedule, but I write nearly daily in my journal. Sometimes I go back and pull out things to give to my characters and my settings in books that I write. But the books themselves are not scheduled. I work on a book when it comes to me, usually about one a year. I spend a lot of time working on it in my head. But getting it published is another matter. So, I have a lot of unpublished manuscripts.”
“[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.”
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
“The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 30, 2014
“It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.”
“I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print”
“Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.”

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