"Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission."

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Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin

Claude Levi-Strauss

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“Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.”

Source : Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
“"Externality" is a different phenomenon from akrasia and doesn't always come with it. The set of desires and actions from which one feels alienated isn't always the same as the set of desires and actions of which one disapproves. It has been pointed out that you can disapprove of something inside yourself but still experience it as yours ("damn it, here I go again!"). In addition, you can approve of something inside yourself but feel like it's not yours ("when the emergency sirens went off, it was as if someone calmer and more reasonable took over and knew just what to do").”
“There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.”

Source : "Sen. Dianne Feinstein talks national security; Sen. John Thune on Romney veepstakes". "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2012.
“There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.”
“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.”
“Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.”

Source : Taliesin, “Elegy For Owain”
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
“We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?”

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