Quotes of Terrain - somelinesforyou

“ The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ”

- Daniel Bell

“ Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian — our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains… ”

- Gloria Anzaldúa

“ The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich
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