"Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."

Society, Family, Self, State

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"Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."

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Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

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L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."

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"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."

Focus,

"Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."

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"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."

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"I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."

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"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art."

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"Nothing exists except through language."

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"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."

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"It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being."

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"In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it."

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