The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land' 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.Raymond Williams
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
Raymond Williams
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Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.
Raymond Williams
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