"The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future."

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Emmanuel Levinas

“The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff...”
“What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.”
“The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.”

Source : Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.144, Transaction Publishers
“If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
“The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moonâ€™s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.”
“Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.”
“We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.”
“A fortress is of no use to cowards.”

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