"Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Culture Quotes #Today Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“Obviously the current approach on ***** both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.”
“Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.”
“Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.”
“We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.”
“There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.”
“Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.”
“Don't underestimate kindess, gentleness and patience in a man.”
“One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.”

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