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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Fulton J. Sheen
    “Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
    Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

  • #3
    Norman Vincent Peale
    “The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
    Norman Vincent Peale

  • #4
    Jean de La Bruyère
    “The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
    Jean De La Bruyere

  • #5
    Pope John Paul II
    “The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.”
    Pope John Paul II

  • #6
    Basil the Great
    “The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.”
    Saint Basil

  • #7
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #8
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #9
    Pete Seeger
    “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”
    Pete Seeger

  • #10
    Richard Yates
    “Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”
    Richard Yates, A Good School

  • #11
    R.S. Thomas
    “You have to imagine
    a waiting that is not impatient
    because it is timeless.”
    R.S. Thomas, The Echoes Return Slow

  • #12
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.”
    Dejan Stojanovic

  • #13
    Walter Brueggemann
    “Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”
    Walter Brueggemann

  • #14
    Michael Pollan
    “... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”
    Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

  • #15
    Ansel Adams
    “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #16
    Ansel Adams
    “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #17
    Ansel Adams
    “Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #18
    Ansel Adams
    “I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”
    Ansel Adams

  • #19
    Edward W. Said
    “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
    Edward Said

  • #20
    Edward W. Said
    “I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
    Edward Said, Palestine

  • #21
    Fredric Jameson
    “In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic, still subsist; culture can still do something to that nature and work at transforming that "referent." Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.”
    Frederic Jameson



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