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#eduction

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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.


Pierre Bourdieu


#rationalism #reductionism #transcendence #art

Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.


Maggie Stiefvater


#grace-brisbane #sam-roth #seduction #self-control #grace

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.


Dalai Lama XIV


#happiness #harm-reduction #talking

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.


Jean Baudrillard


#commands #higher #more #price #seduction

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.


Fred Upton


#back #because #benefit #benefiting #benefits

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.


Bernard Ebbers


#also #capital #communications #cost #deployment

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#believe #disarmament #further #important #important step

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.


Théophile Gautier


#love #seduction #life

My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with the police or at school because at least I would be punished less.


Clive Worth


#dating-advice #dating-diaries #dating-guide #dating-help #dating-tips

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.


Eliot Spitzer


#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness






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