"No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them."

-- Roberto Bolano

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“Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.”

Source : "Senator Jim Jeffords Leaves GOP, Handing Senate to Democrats". "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, archives.nbclearn.com. May 24, 2001.
“I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.”
“I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.”
“I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.”
“Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand.”
“I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See”

Source : Nicholas Wolterstorff (1987). “Lament for a Son”, p.26, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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