"Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality."

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Source : Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.29, Oxford University Press

Vera John-Steiner

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“The idea for Not For Sale originated as a simple brand to tell as many people as possible about what we are trying to achieve - "people are not for sale". The brand is a straight forward message and communicates the mission clearly.”

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“The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.”

Source : Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”
“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.”
“Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact at work; they want flex and time for family too.”
“Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.”
“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.”
“The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.”
“My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.”

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