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When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate?


Harold Edmund Stearns


#civilization #conventions #distinction #equality #individualism

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.


Morarji Desai


#beings #believe #cruelty #form #i

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.


Michel Foucault


#date #easily #end #invention #man

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.


Northrop Frye


#ancient #back #being #convention #due

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.


Malcolm Fraser


#also #been #communities #deal #difficult

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#intervention #invitation #learning #mistakes #experience

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.


Sarah Michelle Gellar


#another #being #business #chance #dramatic

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.


Suzanne Vega


#characters #i #inventing #making #making up

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.


Al Gore


#about #all night #because #been #day

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.


Remy de Gourmont


#also #any #artisan #been #capital






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