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You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there. ↗

— Prince Harry

#give #got #just #sit #something

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#answer #answers #ask #give #give me

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#carried #excuse #moral #motive #out

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#becomes #between #change #clear #country

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#distinguishes #familiar #familiar territory #fight #objectives

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

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

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea