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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#culture #folk #forth #popular #popular culture

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#call #desert #driven #false #honored

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ↗

— John Updike

#get #ignore #jobs #life #nothingness

Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance. ↗

— Nya Wampaze

#bwwm #interracial-marriage #interracial-romance #education

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#arise #choice #decision #human #loss

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blessings #change #comes #heart #more

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language

States are not moral agents. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#moral #states

My proposal happens to be very mainstream. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#mainstream #proposal #very

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers