February 2012
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I often feel that, in so many areas of what we might call progressive politics...
– CN Lester (The beauty myth and me… « a gentleman and a scholar)
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Academic words that I always mishear during...
Sects
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Gaze
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When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land....
– Bishop Desmond Tutu: Revolutionarily (via cocknbull)
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Over the past 25 years, Muslim majorities have elected five women as heads of...
– Dr. Ali M. Nizamuddin is a ISPU Fellow and an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield (via siterlas)
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Here is New York →
tetw:
by E. B. White
On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.
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The availability of multiple interpretations of a life story is particularly...
– from “Composing a Life Story” by Mary Catherine Bateson
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January 2012
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If you were a fully realized person—whatever the hell that would be—you wouldn’t...
– William Gass (via theparisreview)
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How do authors pronounce their names? NEVER BE... →
This should either be compulsory upon publishing something, or my friends should stop judging me.
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People will often cry gross over-intellectualisation when popular culture is...
– Simon Pegg, ‘Nerd do well’ (via lucy-vanpelt)