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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
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