“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”
Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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James Agee 1
American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film cr… 1909–1955Related quotes
“Being is; Time isn’t; time is; being isn’t!”
Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 12. (2021)
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 68
“I don’t think we have to worry too much about somebody up there doing it—we’re doing it ourselves.”
Section 8 (p. 39)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
Source: Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values. 1990, p. 175-6; as cited in: Hanuscin & Lee (2010)
“Failure isn’t the best teacher. Neither is experience. Only evaluated experience teaches us.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.”
To Barack Obama, as quoted in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), Ch. 5
Context: The free market’s the best mechanism ever devised to put resources to their most efficient and productive use. … The government isn’t particularly good at that. But the market isn’t so good at making sure that the wealth that’s produced is being distributed fairly or wisely. Some of that wealth has to be plowed back into education, so that the next generation has a fair chance, and to maintain our infrastructure, and provide some sort of safety net for those who lose out in a market economy. And it just makes sense that those of us who’ve benefited most from the market should pay a bigger share. … When you get rid of the estate tax, you’re basically handing over command of the country’s resources to people who didn’t earn it. It’s like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.