"When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem."

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Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

Herbert Croly

#Promise Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names are not up there next to male names that we've know since we were little kids. Ching Shih, for example, was a pirate commander from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. She was one of the most fearsome pirates, why is her name not included when we list the names of great pirates like Blackbeard?”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.”
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 01, 2015
“Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.”
“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”
“He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.”
“No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “Gravity Dreams”, p.152, Macmillan
“Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that donâ€™t apply to you.”

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