Quote by Terry Eagleton
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. – Terry Eagleton

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Faith
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The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. – Terry Eagleton

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History
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. – Terry Eagleton

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War
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Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. – Le Corbusier

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

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I know a lot of people think its monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but its not if youre enjoying what youre doing. I love to swim and I love to train. – Tracy Caulkins

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To me, success is choice and opportunity. – Harrison Ford

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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. – Anna Quindlen

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