"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."

-- George Eliot

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“I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don't have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they're not going to try to put sharia law in our laws.”
“We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.”

Source : Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
“Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.”
“I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.”
“The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.”
“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.”
“Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.”

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