Les Back quotes
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“I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it”
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“Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift”
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“We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it”
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“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”
-- Les BackSource : Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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