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Text yields, bends, and accommodates

By Jozef Kutej on October 29, 2011 8:09 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Some students begin by forming an opinion ... and it is not till afterwards that they begin to read the texts. They run a great risk of not understanding them at all, or of understanding them wrongly. What happens is that a kind of tacit contest goes on between the text and the preconceived opinions of the reader; the mind refuses to grasp what is contrary to its idea, and the issue of the contest commonly is, not that the mind surrenders to the evidence of the text but that the text yields, bends, and accommodates itself to the preconceived opinion.

--Fustel de Coulanges

Choose wisely

By Jozef Kutej on October 7, 2011 6:08 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks 
If you do something you enjoy
long enough
eventually someone will come along
and offer you money
to stop enjoying it
so they can take it away
from you
and break it into little pieces
because this is what makes them happy.

Choose wisely.

--Dallas Clayton
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