“Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round”
Joel Salatin (1957) American environmentalist
Source: Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
“In England everything is the other way round.”
How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils (1946)
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“It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.”
Ernest Gellner (1925–1995) Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Nations and Nationalism (1983)
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) Historian
Mon the Rangers
The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)
“My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.”
Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist
Source: The Invention of Wings
“It is far easier to learn science first and philosophy later than the other way round!”
Harvey Brown (philosopher) (1950) Philosopher of physics
Physics and Philiosophy in Oxford: a prosperous example of interdisciplinarity, in [Innovation and interdisciplinarity in the university, EDIPUCRS, 2007, 8-574-30677-0, 308 http://books.google.com/books?id=-OGr007TQ0AC&printsec=frontcover#PPA308,M1]
“I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.”
Amitabh Bachchan (1942) Indian actor
Reported in Cinema in India (1991), p. 37.
David Lodge book The British Museum Is Falling Down
The British Museum Is Falling Down ([1965] 1983), ch. 4, p. 56. ISBN 0140062149
“In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
“Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #67
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Source: Black Elk Speaks (1961), Ch. 17 : The First Cure
Context: Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.