"So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact."

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Source : Erving Goffman (1981). “Forms of Talk”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press

Erving Goffman

#Taken Quotes #Mean Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.”
“I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.”
“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.”
“Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.”
“I am a tomboy and I love being with the boys and shooting guns and stuff.”

Source : AMC Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.
“We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.”
“People now have their own particular religion - a denomination of one. I suppose it's a part of the new age phenomenon, but it's much wider than that. On the whole, I would say that is healthy. But I think it was always there, secretly.”
“I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back”

Source : "Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything's at stake'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. September 20, 2013.

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