James Kern Feibleman quotes
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“That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.”
-- James Kern FeiblemanSource : James Kern Feibleman (1969). “The Way of a Man: An Autobiography of James K. Feibleman”
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“A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.”
-- James Kern FeiblemanSource : Understanding Philosophy ch. 3 (1973)
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“It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.”
-- James Kern FeiblemanSource : James Kern Feibleman (1978). “New proverbs for our day”, Horizon House Pubs
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“Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”
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“...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.”
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Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.”
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“A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.”
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“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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