#hi

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#collapse #could #event #explosion #first

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#activities #certainly #complex #disruption #highly

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#before #biographies #drawn #few #had

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#jagger #keith #keith richards #looked #mick

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #between #doing #else #exterior

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anything #become #charged #free #friends

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. ↗

— Mario Monti

#between #blocked #case #certainly #companies

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#ascendancy #because #been #choice #devil