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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt

Learning Genius Wish See Insignificance Shakespeare Study Know Force Read His May Human Should

Live simply so that others may simply live. bell hooks

Live Others Simply May

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley

Evil Enormous Pretense Menacing Only Makes Does Exist Pious Vague

Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist. Ana Navarro

Racism Bad Just Being

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Andrea Dworkin

Life Love You Together Women Men Gender Think Sexually Outside Individuals Come Make Bedroom Leave Private Women Are Predatory Door Intercourse Social Manipulative Then Act Two

Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen. Andrew Zimmern

Life Everything Life Happens Kitchen Happens

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Friendship Fruit Hatred Borne Most Deadly Which Extinguished

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. Harold Bloom

Future Say States Would No Future Studies Literary United United States

Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations. Henry Giroux

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What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life. Henry Giroux

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? Henry Louis Gates

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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. Irving Babbitt

Ethics Sentiment Virtue Intoxication Restrictive New According Expansive Even

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. Kenneth Tynan

Women Drunk Other Sees Sober

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. Kenneth Tynan

Work Art Strong Journalist Understanding Comprehensible Beyond Himself Makes Private Private Thing Forever Precise Artist Straight Product Works Thing Need

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. Kenneth Tynan

You Secret Neurosis Know Keeping

I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in terms of how she raised me and my little brother, the values that she instilled in us, the way she inspired us, and how she lived her everyday life. Kimberly Guilfoyle

Life Time Me Mother Everyday Life Values Made Blessed Everyday Way Brother Inspired Had Instilled Feel Terms She How Just Little Little Brother Us Lived Her Raised

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. Martin Filler

Architecture Master Become Before Apprenticeship Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Carpenter Mason Builder His Begin Century Standard Aspiring Twenties Fourteen Early

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Walter Pater

Life Success Flame Maintain Ecstasy Always Burn Hard

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. Walter Pater

Music Art Constantly Towards Condition

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt

Teacher Adversity Great Prosperity Great Teacher Greater

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