"If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it."

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Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.182, Granta

Sarah Manguso

#Thinking Quotes

“Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.”

Source : Speech at the National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan, November 28, 1999.
“I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.”
“no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith”
“It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.”
“The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.”
“No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.”
“If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each swinging clear of the other's orbit-if, I say, the man who sees this cannot realise the Creator's attributes without the help of the book of Job, then his view of things is beyond my understanding.”
“Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.”

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