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Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
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Can one consider controversy without falling into it? (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Those who despair of life are not long for it (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
What society requires from art... is that it function as an early warning system (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Humor is an antidote to isolation (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Power is the ability not to have to please (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
We don’t get offered crises, they arrive (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It’s wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being (Elizabeth Janeway Quotes)