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pointing to the damage likely to be done to universities by the proposed applications of business-school models of ‘competing producers’ and ‘demanding consumers’ does not rest on any nostalgic desire to return to the far smaller and more
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“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
― Collected Poems
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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Iain Banks / Iain M. Banks fans
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I can't believe there's no group on here for the wonderful Scottish mainstream/sci-fi writer, Iain Banks, so I thought I'd create one. This group is f ...more
Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction that Burns Candle at Both Ends
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For readers and authors interested in the very best other-worldly, transported to incredible stories that keep us up at night and constantly coming ba ...more
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