"Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?"

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Robert Frost

#Mean Quotes #Said Quotes #Used Quotes

“All men are rapists and that's all they are”

Source : TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)
“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.29, Basic Books
“In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.”
“The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.”
“When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.”
“Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage
“And none will hear the postmanâ€™s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”
“If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.”

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