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Both the book and the article include phrases that some people find problematic or even offensive. The first is “American Indian.” Many people prefer the term “Native American,” although when I tried to use that with an Apache interview
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“No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem’d polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”
― The Professor and the Madman
― The Professor and the Madman
“I regret not, sir. I cannot lay claim to that distinction. I am the Superintendent of the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Minor is an American, and he is one of our longest-staying inmates. He committed a murder. He is quite insane.”
― The Professor and the Madman
― The Professor and the Madman
“Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples.”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“Think simple, Murray kept insisting: Think simple.”
― The Professor and the Madman
― The Professor and the Madman
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
― Modern Painters: Volume 3. Of Many Things
― Modern Painters: Volume 3. Of Many Things
Andrew’s 2025 Year in Books
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