I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When … - Bell Hooks

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If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Bell Hooks

I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.

Angles, Emotional, Imagination, Long, Observe, Years

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I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Anothers, Close, Differences, Domination, Love, Order

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

Begin, Choose, Love, Moments, Move, Moving

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

Focus, Handle, People, Political, Thing

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Aims, Feminist, Inspiring, Justice, Live Life, Lives

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Alone, Central, Life, Love, Loving, Meaningful

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One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing. . . Trade unions in this country should. . . consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now. . . Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.

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Eden Robinson

I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we can be to each other and to other species, we've got nothing on tsunamis, hurricanes or tornadoes.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

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It is indolence. . . Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

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