"Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air."

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Walter Darby Bannard

#Ambition Quotes #Reality Quotes #Air Quotes

“When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
“I'd like to win an Oscar.”
“Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.”

Source : Stephanie Tourles (1998). “Natural Foot Care: Herbal Treatments, Massage, and Exercises for Healthy Feet”, Storey Publishing
“If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.”
“Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.”

Source : Matthew Knisely (2014). “Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.”
“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”

Source : Maximilien Robespierre (2007). “Virtue and Terror”, New Left Books
“Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.”

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