William Irwin Thompson Quotes

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

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The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.

Jessi Colter

PeopleMeMediaFindKindTalk

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

Stanley Hauerwas

ConservativeRightLiberalismThough

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter.

Steven Gerrard

BornLiverpoolSupporter

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

Shirley Manson

NobodyWantClockBeatHumansEver

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of thing.

Trevor Paglen

ThoughtLiteratureInformationHiding

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Robert Anderson

PassionHeartMomentManLookPlay

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

Rusty Schweickart

SpaceLookingLearnEnvironmentOwn

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

Rupert Murdoch

TogetherI AmActGetAmazedAm

Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.

Roseanne Barr

MoneyWorldEasyMilitaryCultures

Beauty, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!

Mary Lambert

BeautyConfidenceFashionSelf-Love

We tend to think that employment is employment, and we don't ask the question: is this rewarding employment? Research establishes pretty clearly that typical notions of happiness - that more is better - really don't correspond to the way people think and feel.

Michael Spence

HappinessPeopleResearchBetterWay

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Josef Albers

ColorAimProveNeverExpression

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