"To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,"

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Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.219, Oxford University Press

C. Wright Mills

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“Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.”
“I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.”
“Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.”
“Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.”
“Night after night we watch the news and see families who have lost loved ones via violence. We eat our dinner, shake our heads and keep on moving. But for families that have lost loved ones, life is never the same.”
“More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.”

Source : "Why I Want My Daughters — and Son — to Read Lean In" by Nancy Birdsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.
“The biggest lesson is that you write the best songs when you're being real, an honest and you mean what you're saying, not trying to be something you're not.”
“Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.”

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