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Raymond Moody Quote: “If you present your dog to…”

If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words.

October 28, 2021 1944, American, June 30, Quotes by Philosophers, Raymond Moody

Hampton Sides Quote: “I don’t concentrate on any one…”

I don’t concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

October 26, 2021 1962, American, Hampton Sides, Quotes by Historians

John Thorn Quote: “We are fans because the game…”

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

October 16, 2021 1947, American, April 17, John Thorn, Quotes by Historians

Aime Cesaire Quote: “I have a different idea of…”

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

October 12, 2021 1913, Aime Cesaire, French, June 20, Quotes by Poets

Harriet Tubman Quote: “Why, der language down dar in…”

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus’ as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an’ I could not understand ‘dem, no how.

October 8, 2021 1820, American, Harriet Tubman, Quotes by Activists

Walter Kaufmann Quote: “It was also Hegel who established…”

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

October 7, 2021 1921, German, July 1, Quotes by Philosophers, Walter Kaufmann

Octavio Paz Quote: “The work of art is always…”

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator… Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

September 19, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Edward Hirsch Quote: “The muse, the beloved, and duende…”

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.

September 3, 2021 1950, American, Edward Hirsch, January 20, Quotes by Poets

Ian Hamilton Finlay Quote: “Well, probably I was fed up…”

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

September 1, 2021 1925, Ian Hamilton Finlay, October 28, Quotes by Poets, Scottish

Temple Grandin Quote: “When I was in high school…”

When I was in high school and college, I thought everybody could think in pictures. And my first inkling to my thinking was even different was when I was in college and I read an article about, you know, some scientist said that the caveman could not have designed tools until they had language.

August 31, 2021 1947, American, August 29, Quotes by Educators, Temple Grandin

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