"The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence."

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Source : Andrew DELBANCO (2009). “The Real American Dream”, p.114, Harvard University Press

Andrew Delbanco

#Culture Quotes #Transcendence Quotes #Craving Quotes

“Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.”
“Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what he viewed as the superior political and moral position of his own revolutionary movement as a trump card to defeat a well-armed adversary. These ideas were originally generated during his early years as a revolutionary in the 1920s and 1930s, and continued to influence his recommendations in the wars against the French (1946-1954) and the United States (1959-1965).”
“I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA
“Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1999). “The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century”, p.4, U of Minnesota Press
“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human powerâ€”specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.”
“I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.”

Source : Maureen Stapleton (1995). “A Hell of a Life: An Autobiography”
“I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.”

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