"We don't know what we think until we see what we say."

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Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.77, Basic Books

Clifford Geertz

#Thinking Quotes

“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.”

Source : "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,
“Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.”
“In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.”
“It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.”

Source : "Doctor Who Confidential", Series 2, Episode 3 ("Friends Reunited"), January 21, 2010.
“This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way that leads to life eternal.”
“A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.”
“A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on”
“The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.”

Source : "The Party Faithful". Interview with David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2013.

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