"We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit."

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Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.222, Rowman & Littlefield

Mark Kingwell

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“There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment”
“Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.”
“The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.”
“Multiple descriptions are better than one.”
“[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.”
“Just look at me now - I've never been so happy in my life!”
“When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
“The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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