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Mark Kingwell Inspirational Quotes (12)

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Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
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How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?
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We are capitalism made flesh.
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Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.
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Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.
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We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.
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Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.
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Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.
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War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.
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Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.
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We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.
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Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.
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