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This topic is a catch-all for quotes of things I've read over the years. It contains quotations I liked for any reason -- could have been what the author said; how it was said; or what it stands for.
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Friday, March 25
Pico Iyer
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Mar 2005 10:29 AM EST
Not the least of the ironies that lie behind this deeply serious and thoughtful book is that perhaps the greatest philosopher the Indian subcontinent has ever produced is increasingly fashionable in India because he is regarded as an icon of the West. – Pico Iyer, “The Buddha’s cure: A Review of An ... more »
Pico Iyer
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Mar 2005 10:29 AM EST
The West, for those far away, means a haven of modern thinking, reason, and clear-headedness, qualities not always apparent at home, and a refuge from ritualism and superstition; those who long for it are Occidentalists in a hopeful sense. And though such admirers are to be found in every traditional ... more »
Bill Moyers
by
DavidAkin
on Fri 25 Mar 2005 10:28 AM EST
There are times when what we journalists see and intend to write about dispasstionately sends a shiver down the spine, shaking us from our neutrality. This has been happening to me frequently of late as one story after another drives home the fact that the delusional is no longer marginal ... more » Sunday, March 6
Pico Iyer
by
DavidAkin
on Sun 06 Mar 2005 07:46 PM EST
The West, for those far away, means a haven of modern thinking, reason, and clear-headedness, qualities not always apparent at home, and a refuge from ritualism and superstition; those who long for it are Occidentalists in a hopeful sense. And thought such admirers are to be found in every traditional ... more » |
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