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The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within the global economy. ”
West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket. ”
I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about. ”
In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ”
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ”
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. ”
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. ”
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. ”
Instrumental music can spread the international language. ”
Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart. ”