"Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine."

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Tony Judt

#Ghetto Quotes #Goal Quotes #Identity Quotes

“My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 07, 2012
“I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.”

Source : "Model Hot Seat: Magdalena Frackowiak" by Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. September 11, 2009.
“You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.”
“The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.”
“To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.”
“I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.”
“I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.”
“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain peopleâ€¦. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.”

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