#cade

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#bathroom #bits #class #come #cut

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#greece #i #i think #living #manifest

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#agree #answers #anymore #asking #been

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing. ↗

— Lionel Richie

#cleansing #come #does #facade #find

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#ancient #becomes #before #comfort #discussion

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#almost #around #been #bon #bon jovi

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#economics #herd-behavior #behavior

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#born #decade #hot #i #imminent

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#culture #decade #existential #how #idea