"Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth."

-- D.T. Suzuki

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“If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.”
“What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?”
“You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.”

Source : "The Storm Over the University". The New York Review of Books, www.ditext.com. December 06, 1990.
“As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.”
“That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.”

Source : "Kaskade remixes what it means to be an EDM superstar for intimate Spring Fling tour". Interview with Spencer Dukoff, www.nydailynews.com. May 14, 2017.
“You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.”

Source : Islamica Magazine Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. July 2, 2006.
“It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door.”
“I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.”

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