Reads tagged with “politics”

The Prescient Poem 10-Year-Old Anne Frank Penned in Her Schoolmate’s Friendship Book

“For-get-me-not.”

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How Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Subverted Censorship and Revolutionized the Politics of LGBT Love in 1928

A beautiful fusion of the tools of science fiction, the feats of feminism, and the polemics of homosexuality.

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Brave Genius: How the Unlikely Friendship of Scientist Jacques Monod and Philosopher Albert Camus Shaped Modern Culture

“Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”

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Isaac Asimov’s Wise and Witty Response to Those Who Question the Value of Investing in Space Exploration

“The people of the United States spend exactly as much money on booze alone as on the space program.”

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Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity

“The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity.”

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Hannah Arendt on How Bureaucracy Fuels Violence

“The rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”

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Edie Windsor, Patron Saint of Modern Love

“The more we see each other, the more we love what we see.”

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Italo Calvino on America

“America … is the land of the richness of life, of the fullness of every hour in the day, the country which gives you the sense of carrying out a huge amount of activity, even though in fact you achieve very little, the country where solitude is impossible.”

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The Shape of Spectacular Speech: An Infographic Analysis of What Made MLK’s “I Have a Dream” So Powerful

The poetics of presenting, or why beautiful metaphors are better than beautiful slides.

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Pioneering 19th-Century Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Education and Women in Science

“No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

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Reads tagged with “politics”

“For-get-me-not.”

A beautiful fusion of the tools of science fiction, the feats of feminism, and the polemics of homosexuality.

“Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”

“The people of the United States spend exactly as much money on booze alone as on the space program.”

“The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity.”

“The rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”

“The more we see each other, the more we love what we see.”

“America … is the land of the richness of life, of the fullness of every hour in the day, the country which gives you the sense of carrying out a huge amount of activity, even though in fact you achieve very little, the country where solitude is impossible.”

The poetics of presenting, or why beautiful metaphors are better than beautiful slides.

“No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

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