"You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others."

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Source : "The Storm Over the University". The New York Review of Books, www.ditext.com. December 06, 1990.

John Searle

#Tradition Quotes #Relation Quotes

“My whole family has been such a great support, and theyre the ones who have kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today.”
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
“One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.”
“You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.”
“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”

Source : Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa
“My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”
“Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.”
“Eva is a story ofÂ repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.”

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