"Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides."

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Source : Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books

Ruth Hubbard

#Order Quotes #Self Quotes #Framework Quotes

“Did I ever tell you,â€™ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, â€˜that that aunt of mine once hatched an egg?â€™ He paused, deep in thought, and walked slowly to the door before turning again. His lordship of Aubigny, staring after the vanishing form of his brother, received the full splendour of Lymondâ€™s smile. â€˜It was a cuckoo,â€™ said Francis Crawford prosaically, and followed Lennox out.”
“The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.”
“The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing”
“I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”

Source : "Schoenberg: A Critical Biography". Book by Willi Reich, p. 34, 1971.
“That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.”
“I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.”
“On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.”
“All requires courage.”

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