"The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular."

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Source : "Why Do Men Barbecue?". Book by Richard Shweder, 2003.

Richard Shweder

#Knowledge Quotes #Views Quotes #World Quotes

“I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.”
“I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Lamar Odom talks about defending the crown". Dime Magazine Interview, uproxx.com. April 15, 2010.
“Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.”
“You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.”
“What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.”
“It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.”
“We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.”

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