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last updated: November 28, 2023

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.
-- Gordon Gee

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Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam â€“ a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
-- Janis Ian

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The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
-- Jim Palmer

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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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“My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.”
“My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.”
“Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.”
“My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.”
“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”
“Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.”
“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.”
“It is the sun that shares our works. The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.”