"Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation."

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W. H. Auden

#Practice Quotes #Separation Quotes #Theory Quotes

“we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.”
“Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.”
“Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.”
“This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.”
“What occurs after revelation and paralysis?”

Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan
“My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.”
“I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.”

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